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Outline for 11/7: The European Union
Deepening the EU
Widening the EU
Why do so many Countries want to join the EU? EU Programs
EU Institutions: Supranational or Intergovernmental?
Deepening : From the EEC to the EC to the EU
1952 European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
1954 European Defense Community (EDC) failed
1957 European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom)
1957 European Economic Community (EEC)
1965 Merger Treaty: ECSC + Euratom + EEC = European Community (EC)
1970s Euro-stagnation
1985 Single European Act
1992 Treaty on European Union (EU) aka Maastricht Treaty
2004 Constitutional Treaty – ratification failed in France and the Netherlands
2007 Lisbon Treaty – initially rejected by Ireland, passed in a second Irish referendum in
2009
Widening the EU: from 6 to 27 (look at map on p. xxix)
1952
France, (West) Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
1973
Britain, Ireland, and Denmark
1981
Greece
1986
Spain and Portugal
1991
German reunification (East Germany)
1995
Austria, Sweden, and Finland
2004
Poland, Czech Rep, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia,
Malta, Cyprus
2007
Romania and Bulgaria
2008
Croatia
What European countries are not in the EU?
What countries want to join the EU?
Why do so many countries want to join the EU?
EU Programs
Community Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Regional Development Fund
Social Fund
Cohesion Fund
How does this EU fund these programs?
Customs duties (i.e. tariffs on non-member countries)
Value-Added Tax (VAT)
Contributions from each member-state (based roughly on GDP)
net payers vs. net receivers
EU Institutions (p. 361)
European Council
Council of the European Union (formerly the Council of Ministers)
European Parliament
European Commission
European Court of Justice
European Central Bank
Questions about EU Institutions
Does this look like a United States of Europe?
Which institutions are supranational and which are intergovernmental?