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Politically, the idea was to improve and streamline political cooperation with regard to a joint foreign policy. This joint policy was implemented on issues such as the CSCE or the Middle East, but unity within the EC was far more difficult to establish when sanctions were to be imposed on the USSR because of Poland, on Argentina because of the Falklands War and on South Africa because of apartheid. In 1985, the European Community struggled to define the strategic objectives common to the Member States. New policies introduced in the treaty included a regional policy that was implemented but not codified, the environment, research and technology. Finally, the European institutions were given greater democratic legitimacy, in particular by broadening the European Parliament’s sphere of activity.
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