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The founding document for the constitution of federal Europe is subscribed by Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi during their confinement on the island of Ventotene.
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The European Community of Coal and Steel (ECSC) was created with the treaty of Paris on 18th April 1951 with the initiative of some politicians. One of them was the italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi with the aim to share the production of these two raw materials with the six European countries (Belgium, France, Western Germany, Itay, Luxemburg, Netherlands). It was perceived as the first step of a European Federal process.
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The founders of ECSC decide to involve economy in the European integration process.
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The treaty of Rome was signed on 25th March 1957 in the italian capital and it represents a fundamental moment in the process of the European community. The six signing countires established the European Economic Community ( CEE ) and with another treaty approved in the same day - that established the European Community of Atomic Energy, known as Euraton.
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CAP guarantees food security and improves the output of the productivity of the old continent.
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The person who becomes president is Aldo Moro, a politician, a scholarl and a legal expert.
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Europe celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome and the European Council meets in the italian capital also for the constitution of the international fund for agricultural development.
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For the first time the CEE citizens elect directly the members of the European Parliament that were previusly designed by National Parliaments. The influence of Parliament is constantly increasing.
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In Luxembourg with the single European Act the single market was born with the aim to further facilitate trade among member States.
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Erasmus Program, acronym of European Region Action Scheme For The Mobility of Univesity Students, is a student mobility program of the EU. It also takes the name from the Dutch scholar Erasmus Da Rotterdam.
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The Agreement allows European citizens to travel freely without passport control at the Borders. It will come into force only in 1995.
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The single market is completed thanks to the "four freedoms" of circulation of goods, services, people and capital. The European Community changes its name for a stronger and closer vision of the European peoples. From now on it will be called the European Union.
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It becomes law on the 1st January 2002. The Euro is the official currency of the European Union and the only currency adopted by 19 of 28 member States . The Euro is managed by the European Central Bank (ECB), with its head office in Frankfurt, and by the European system of central banks.
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Solemn proclamation of the charter of the fundamental rights of European citizens , expression of the principles of democracy and the state on which the European Union is based.
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It was signed in 2007 by member States. It became law the 1st December 2009. with it the EU has modern institutions and more efficient worfing methods.
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With this they established the main goals for the next 10 years of EU (security, prosperity, sustainability, attention to social policies, diplomatic agreements with the rest of the world).
