The Lisbon Treaty - the Process and Post Treaty

• Reference:GB 254 MS 420/21
• Dates of Creation:1915-2008
• Name of Creator:
  Sir William Nicoll
• Physical Description:
  1 folder

• Scope and Content

  The processes of The Libson Treaty and Documents on the Lisbon Treaty and Post Lisbon Treaty. Includes: Article from the European Business Journal, 'We Opened in Essen and on to Barcelona', 2002 Email from John Hemery to Nicoll on the processes, 2004 Briefing paper, The Lisbon Agenda for Economic Reform, 2005 Article, 'Making Europe Globally Competitive: the Lisbon Agenda', 2008 - Photocopy of a passage from a book by V.I. Lenin, 1915 Email from David Ayers to Nicoll on the Leverhulme Trust Award, September 2008 Printout of online transcript of Leon Trotsky article from 1923, 'Is the Time Ripe for the Slogan: 'The United States of Europe?'', printed 2008 Newspaper cutting, 'Would Churchill Vote Conservative?' Cutting from The Times, 'Letters to the Editor', with one of the letters coming from Alan Dashwood, 1997 Printout of online article from BBC News website, 'Hague Attacks Brown on EU Treaty', 2009 Printout of online article, 'The View from Europe', marked as Post Lisbon by Nicoll, 2009 Printout of online article 'Hobbled by Lisbon, Hamstrung by Nice', 2009 Printout of article from Telegraph website, marked Lisbon by Nicoll, 'William Hague Interview: Gordon Brown Could be Forced into European Referendum', 2009 Printout of article from the Irish Times website, 'Czech Policies a Conundrum for EU Treaty', April 2009 Coonclusion of an essay with notes by Nicoll, 'A More Coherent and Effective European Foreign Policy?' Diagram 'The Gordian Knotes' Printouts of preliminary results of Post-referendum Survey in Ireland Magazine article with French, German and English articles, the English article entitled '10 Years Without Frontiers' magazine article from Punch, 'Double Deutsch', July 1990

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Born in Dundee, Sir William Nicoll was an only child. Growing up in a tenement, his father was a joiner. He attended Morgan Academy, then won a scholarship to University College, Dundee, which was then part of the University of St Andrews.
  Nicoll passed the civil service exams and moved to London in 1949 to join the Board of Trade. Married Helen Morison in 1954, at the same time he became Editor of The Reel, a post he held in 1954 and 1955. The next year he was posted to Calcutta as trade commissioner, cutting short his editorship. Within ten years he had risen to become private secretary to Douglas Jay, the Labour heavyweight whom Harold Wilson had appointed president of the Board of Trade.
  From there Nicoll was seconded to the Foreign Office and served 20 years as one of the UK's senior men in Brussels. He became familiar with the French language and had a narrow escape from an IRA letter bomb while there.
  Nicoll rose to become Director General of the Council of the European Communities, and was knighted in 1992. In retirement, he lectured, edited the European Business Journal, wrote books on the European Union and advised candidate countries hoping to join it.
  Sir William was a lifelong teetotaller, and keen Scottish country dancer.

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• Note

  Born in Dundee, Sir William Nicoll was an only child. Growing up in a tenement, his father was a joiner. He attended Morgan Academy, then won a scholarship to University College, Dundee, which was then part of the University of St Andrews.
  Nicoll passed the civil service exams and moved to London in 1949 to join the Board of Trade. Married Helen Morison in 1954, at the same time he became Editor of The Reel, a post he held in 1954 and 1955. The next year he was posted to Calcutta as trade commissioner, cutting short his editorship. Within ten years he had risen to become private secretary to Douglas Jay, the Labour heavyweight whom Harold Wilson had appointed president of the Board of Trade.
  From there Nicoll was seconded to the Foreign Office and served 20 years as one of the UK's senior men in Brussels. He became familiar with the French language and had a narrow escape from an IRA letter bomb while there.
  Nicoll rose to become Director General of the Council of the European Communities, and was knighted in 1992. In retirement, he lectured, edited the European Business Journal, wrote books on the European Union and advised candidate countries hoping to join it.
  Sir William was a lifelong teetotaller, and keen Scottish country dancer.

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by Joy Naomi Ramsay, Archives Volunteer, 16/04/2018

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