The Helsinki Accords, or the Triumph of General de Gaulle’s Pan-European Ideas
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Signed on August 1, 1975, the Helsinki Final Act was presented as the multilateral outcome of the policy of détente towards the countries of the Warsaw Pact, which had been introduced by Charles de Gaulle in the mid-1960s. While the Soviets saw their proposed conference on European security as a way of weakening ties between the United States and Western Europe and of preserving the European political and territorial status quo, Georges Pompidou, on the other hand, agreed to the conference but sought to use it as a means of overcoming the Cold War’s bipolar effects on Europe.
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