An European Council is held in Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It confirms the need to conduct the proceedings of the two Intergovernmental Conferences, centered on Economic and Monetary Union and on the aspects of Political Union, in parallel on the basis of the draft Treaty prepared by the Presidency. The Netherlands take over the presidency of the Council of the European Communities. Sweden forrmally applies to join the European Communities. The seventeenth Occidental Economic Summit is held in London, United Kingdom.
Participants agree to hold annual meetings with the Soviet Union and define a support plan for it.
They also agree on opening their markets to products and services from Eastern European countries and they commit to successfully end the Uruguay Round negotiations. The Council provides financial aid for Israel and the Palestinian population of the Occupied Territories. 25 Stoeckel ruling. The European Court of Justice decrees that the dispositions of the French labour legislation forbidding women to work during the night in the industry sector, is contrary to the equality of treatment between women and men with regard to access to employment. August 22 Failed coup in the Soviet Union.