1. Commission, Third Report on the General Activities of the European Communities (Luxembourg: European Communities, 1970), p. 12.
2. Philip Malcolm Waller Thody, The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics, and Personalities (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 56.
3. Commission, Fourth Report on the General Activities of the European Communities (Luxembourg: European Communities, 1971), p. x.
4. On the Hague summit, see Journal of European Integration History 9, no. 2 (2003) (special issue on this topic); Haig Simonian, Privileged Partnership: Franco-German Relations in the European Community, 1969–1984 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1985), pp. 83–84.
5. See Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, “The 1970 and 1975 Budget Treaties: Enhancing the Democratic Architecture of the Communities,” in Finn Laursen, ed., Designing the European Union: From Paris to Lisbon (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 98–123