EUROPEAN UNION

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    Speech by Robert Schuman

    SOME OF THE WORDS THAT HE SAID:
    "World peace cannot be safeguarded without creative efforts comparable to the dangers that threaten it."
    "Europe will not be done at once or in a joint effort: it will be done thanks to concrete achievements, which first create de facto solidarity."
    "The pooling of coal and steel productions (...) will change the destiny of those regions, which for so long have been dedicated to the manufacture of weapons, of which they have been the first victims."
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    ECSC was founded

    a first international organisation to be based on supranational principles and was, through the establishment of a common market for coal and steel, intended to expand the economies
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    EEC was founded 6 countries

    Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
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    EEC was enlarged to nine countries

    Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, UK, Ireland and Denmark
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    ERDF was founded

    The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is a fund allocated by the European Union. Its purpose is to transfer money from richer regions (not countries), and invest it in the infrastructure and services of underdeveloped regions.
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    EEC was enlarged to ten countries

    Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Greece,
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    EEC was enlarged to twelve countries

    Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Portugal
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    Maastrich treaty came into force

    The treaty founded the European Union and established its pillar structure which stayed in place until the Lisbon Treaty came into force in 2009. The treaty also greatly expanded the competences of the EEC/EU and led to the creation of the single European currency, the euro.
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    EU was enlarged to fifteen countries

    Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Portugal, German Federal Republic, German Democratic Republic, Austria, Finland and Sweden
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    European Central Bank was founded

    The European Central Bank (ECB) is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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    Adoption of treaty of Nice which came into force in 2003

    The Treaty of Nice was signed by European leaders on 26 February 2001 and came into force on 1 February 2003. ... The entry into force of the treaty was in doubt for a time, after its initial rejection by Irish voters in a referendum in June 2001.
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    The Euro came into circulation

    The euro replaced the peseta
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    EU was enlarged to twenty-five countries

    Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Portugal, German Federal Republic, German Democratic Republic, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Slovakia , Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Poland,
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    EU was enlarged to twenty-seven countries

    Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Spain and Portugal, German Federal Republic, German Democratic Republic, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Slovakia , Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.
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    Treaty of Lisbon became into force

    The Lisbon Treaty did make changes to how EU law gets passed which reduced the scope of states' veto ability, but it did not abolish veto powers; and these changes are already in effect, rather than coming into force in 2020.

  • EU was enlarged to twenty-eight countries

    Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom United, Czech Republic, Romania and Sweden.