Transcript EU 3 - BYU Marriott School

Group 6
European Union
Brandon Henrie
Lincoln Stevens
Brent Andrus
Tanner Christensen
Adam Belnap
Overview
 Background
 Current Situation
 International Aspects
 Special Problems
 Future
European Union
What is the EU?
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
International Union of 25 independent members
Worlds largest confederation of independent states
Single market, single currency, managed by European
Central Bank
Commonality of agricultural, trade, and fishery policy
European Union
Formation of European Union
Background
Current Situation
1951
Treaty of Paris
1957
Treaty of Rome
1993
EU Formed
1992
Maastricht Treaty
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
European Union
3 Pillars
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
European
Communities (EC)
•Agriculture Policy
Common Foreign &
Security Policy (CFSP)
•Foreign Policy:
•Fisheries Policy
•Human Rights
•EU competition Law
•Democracy
•EU Citizenship
•Foreign Aid
•Healthcare
•Research
•Environment law
Police & Judicial
Cooperation in
Criminal Matters
(PJCC)
•Security Policy:
•Security and
defense policy
•EU Battlegroups
•Peacekeeping
•Drug Trafficking
•Weapons Smuggling
•Terrorism
•Organized Crime
•Bribery and Fraud
European Union
Current Situation
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
3 Legislative Bodies
European Parliament
Special Problems
Future
Council of the EU
European Commission
European Union
The European Parliament
Voice of the People
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
 Elected every five years by the people of Europe to represent
their interests
 732 members from the 25 countries. 222 of the 732 are
women (more than one third)
 Members do not sit in national blocks, but in seven Europewide political groups
 The largest of these are the centre-right European People’s
Party (Christian Democrats), followed by the Socialists, the
Liberals and the Greens.
 Exercises democratic control over the Union
 Has the power to dismiss the Commission by adopting a
motion of censure.
European Union
The European Parliament
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
Main job – pass European laws.
It does this in conjunction with
the Council of the European Union
Shares joint responsibility of
approving EU’s annual budget
President of EP – Josep Borrel
European Union
The Council of the European Union
Background
Voice of the Member States
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
Consists of ministers from national governments of
each country
Shares legislative power and the EU’s budget with the
European Parliament
Each country has votes dependent of the size of its
population
Co-ordinates economic policies of each country
Implements the EU’s common foreign and security
policy
European Union
The European Commission
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
Promoting the Common Interest
Drafts proposals for new European
laws.
Manages the day-to-day business
of implementing EU policies and
spending EU funds
Consists of 25 men & women, one
from each country
Commissioners do not represent
the governments of their home
countries, each of them instead has
responsibility for a particular EU
policy area
President Jose Manuel Barroso
European Union
Background
Themes
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Sustainable Development
Lisbon Strategy
Future
Extending Structural Policy
European Union
International Functions of the EU
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
• 25 countries formed the
European Commission.
•Main objective: discuss EU trade
policy
European Union
Trade Between the EU and U.S.
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
•The EU and the US are each other’s
main trading partners and account for
the largest bilateral trade relationship in
the world as of 2005.
Future
•EU and US account for a combined
57% of world GDP, so there is much to
gain from more trade and investment
and less barriers between them.
European Union
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
•The EU and US are responsible
together for about 2/5 of world trade.
•In the year 2005, exports of EU
goods to the US amounted to 250
billion euros.
•Imports from the US amounted to 234
billion euros.
•Very interdependent
European Union
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
•China has been the big winner in
Europe's new shopping spree. In July
2005, China for the first time exported
more goods to the euro zone than did
the U.S. In the first five months of this
year, China's exports to the region were
$69 billion, up 26% from a year earlier.
By JOELLEN PERRY and MARCUS WALKER
European Union
The EU Helps Solve Problems
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
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EU is a major driving force in
the Doha
Development Agenda (DDA).
Program for Action:
1. Strengthens health care on a
national basis
2. Increases affordability
3. Researches new vaccines.
European Union
Special Problems Facing the EU
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
European Union
Special Problems Facing the EU
Background
Current Situation
•Languages
International
Aspects
Special Problems
•A Single Currency
Future
•Expansio
n
European Union
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
The Future of the
European Union
•Official
Language
•European Union
Candidates
•Russia and the
European Union
European Union
Official Language
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
•One Billion Euros
spent on interpreters
•Make English official
language
•Debate continues
over making
legislations available
European Union
15,000,000
14,500,000
Background
14,000,000
Current Situation
International
Aspects
13,500,000
Special Problems
13,000,000
Future
12,500,000
12,000,000
European Union Candidates
Candidates:
-Croatia
-Turkey
-Macedonia
*733 billion increase in EU
GDP
Potentials:
-Bosnia
-Albania
-Serbia
-Montenegro
*94 billion increase in EU
GDP
GDP
• 1.15 trillion potential
increase to EU GDP
Current EU
Potential EU
USA
European Union
The European Union and
Russia
Background
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
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Polish Government
vetoes partnership
agreement
1. Russian trade
barriers
2. Poland’s power
play with EU
3. Volatile Polish
government
European Union
Background
The Future of the
European Union
Current Situation
International
Aspects
Special Problems
Future
Questions?
Will it be the next
superpower or go
out of style?