§ Q7. Mr. Molloyasked the Prime Minister if he will call a Heads of Government meeting of European Economic Community and European Free Trade Association countries.
§ The Prime MinisterI have no plans to propose such a meeting.
§ Mr. MolloyShould not the Prime Minister have plans to call such a meeting, if only to reassure those EFTA members who responded to Britain's call to set up EFTA, and who will not be able to join the enlarged Community, that they will not be deserted? Should he not also take cognisance of the Vedel Report commented on in today's Guardian and call a meeting to have the report examined because of the dangers to democracy and the sluggish administration in the EEC? Should not the Prime Minister call such a meeting if only to tell those in Europe that the British workers and trade unions are an essential part of the British community and that he has misrepresented them very much over the past year?
§ The Prime MinisterA meeting is not necessary for any of those matters. First, the Heads of Government of the EFTA countries know that they are not being 1625 deserted, because they are not. There has just been a meeting of the EFTA countries, on 4th and 5th May, and the communiqué stated quite clearly that all the Ministers welcomed the successful conclusion of the negotiations by Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom for membership of the Community and the signature by those countries of the Treaty of Accession in Brussels on 22nd January this year.