European Integration-Dooge Report
He had a primary role in the intergovernmental building of a report into improving co-operation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1984 during Ireland's Presidency. His appointment was not without controversy with FitzGerald who proposed the appointment of Dooge insisting with him despite German pressure for their former President, Karl Carstens, to be given the role. This work (The Dooge Report) is credited as helping form the basis of the Single European Act and the Treaty of Maastricht with much of the language used the same.
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