The Davignon report, also referred to as the Luxembourg report, published on 27 October 1970, was a report on the future foreign policy of

European Economic Community The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisbo ...

member nations. It was written by a council chaired by

Étienne Davignon Étienne, Count Davignon (; born 4 October 1932) is a Belgium, Belgian former diplomat, top civil servant, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission, also known as an active participant in organization of the murder of P ...

of the Belgian Foreign Office. The committee was appointed by the

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to make proposals on political cooperation between the member states. It recommended that member states should try to speak with a single voice on international problems, a proposal that was approved by all six member governments. It resulted first in

European Political Cooperation The European Political Co-operation (EPC) was the common term for the co-ordination of foreign policy between member states of the European Communities (EC) from its inception in 1970 until the EPC was superseded by the new European Union's ...

and later in the

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's Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1992.

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History of the European Union, 1970
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