Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kufarira kukuru kwaKirk kwaiva munyaya dzekunze nekudzivirira, ari mumiriri weBritish muParamende paDare reEurope kubva muna 1956 - 1963 uye zvakare kubva muna 1966 - 1970. Akashandawo mumumiriri weBritish-American Parliamentary uye mumakomiti akasiyana eWestern European Union. Sezvo akanga achiri muduku zvikuru kuti arwe muHondo Yenyika II (kunyange zvazvo akavhiringidzwa zvikuru nayo), akanzwa Winston Churchill achidaidzira kuti pave neUnited States of Europe muna September 1946, uye akatsaurira zvakawanda zvebasa rake kuti izvi zviitike. Akanga achirwisana nokupindira kweBritain muSuez
muna 1956, asi mutsigiri akasimba wokupinda kweBritain muCommon Market yaivapo muna 1973, uye mutungamiri anotungamira kuti nyika irambe iripo muna 1975 referendamu. Achitaura chiGerman nechiFrench zvakanaka, ainyanya kuyemura nzira iyo vaGermany vakanga vavakazve nyika yavo uye vakagadzira rugare, hwakagadzikana uye hunotungamirirwa zvakanaka hurongwa hwezvematongerwe enyika mushure me1945. Kumusha kwake akakurudzira zvakasimba kubviswa kwechirango chorufu.