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Pertemuan 3 UE 2016 English Version Full
Pertemuan 3 UE 2016 English Version Full
HISTORY OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION
HI – USTJ 2017
Which Europe?
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They also opened the door for West Germany to join the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). On October 23,
1954, the following protocol was signed in Paris. For the
Federal Republic, the Bonn-Paris Conventions meant an end to
the occupation regime and the acquisition of expanded
sovereignty vis-à-vis the Germany Treaty of May 1952.
Within the framework of its accession to the WEU and NATO,
the government of the Federal Republic accepted restrictions
on rearmament, including the renunciation of nuclear,
biological, and chemical weapons
The Way to Rome 1957
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The EEC Treaty abolishes quotas and customs duties between the
Member States. It establishes a common external tariff, a sort of
external frontier for Member States' products, replacing the
preceding tariffs of the different states. This customs union is
accompanied by a common trade policy. This policy, managed at
Community level and no longer at state level, totally dissociates the
customs union from a mere free-trade association.
The effects of dismantling customs barriers and eliminating
quantitative restrictions to trade during the transitional period were
very positive, allowing intra-Community trade and trade between
the EEC and third countries to develop rapidly.
common policies
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1952 1958
The European Steel and Coal Community The treaties of Rome:
The European Economic Community
The European Atomic Energy Community
(EURATOM)
2009 1987
Treaty of Lisbon The European Single Act:
the Single Market
1993
2003 1999 Treaty of European Union
Treaty of Nice Treaty of Amsterdam – Maastricht
Changing contexts …
second Gulf War 1990
53 Yugoslavian wars from 1991 onwards
EC = economic global player without (global) political weight
German Re-Unification
how to integrate the under-developed parts of eastern Germany
how to integrate a reunified Germany and counterbalance its
possible political weight
for Germany: how to assure Germany’s position as a reliable partner
in European integration
UK:
endorsed the Single Market (intergouvernmental)
Spain:
further economic and political integration only if flanked with further
social and regional measures
Germany:
not willing to sacrifice D-Mark & independence of German Central
Bank
aiming for further policy coordination / further integration
EC FOREIGN POLICY
Customs union and single
Cooperation, common
market
positiions and measures
Agricultural policy Cooperation between
Peacekeeping
Structural policy judicial authorities in civil
Human Rights
Trade policy and criminal law
Democracy
Police cooperation
Aid to non-member
Combating racism and
countries
New or amended provisions on xenophobia
Fighting drugs and the
EU citizenship SECURITY POLICY arms trade
Education and culture Fighting terrorism
Trans-European networks Drawing on the WEU: Criminal acts against
Health questions concerning the children, trafficking in
Research and environment security of the EU human beings
Social policy Disarmament
Asylum policy Financial aspects of defence
External borders Long-term : Europe‘s
Immigration policy security framework
EURATOM
ECSC
THE TREATIES
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Economic and Monetary Union
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Three pillars and a roof become one single organization - the EU:
The three-pillars and a roof organization is replaced: there isjust one
organization with legal personality
the EC is abolished
- Throughout the Treaty of Rome (ToR) and the Maastricht Treaty the term
‘Community’ is replaced by ‘Union’
US Marshall-Plan
13,3 bill.(Milliarden) US$, ~2,00
1948-1951
EU enlargement
69,5 bill.(Milliarden) €, ~0,05
1990-2006 (laufend)
Literature
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