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The end of World War II (WWII)
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Start of Cold War
The world is debited
-USA
-USSR (soviet union) -
Franco-German reconciliation
Idea of Robert Schuman (French Prime Minister) -
European Coal and Steel Community
Six countries sing a treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel community
-Luxembourg
-Italy
-France
-Belgium
-The Netherlands
-the German Federal Republic (FRG, commonly known as West Germany) -
Treaty of Rome
-EEC: European Economic Community + (CAP: Commun Agriculty Politicy)
-EURATOM: European Atomic Energy Policity -
Enter in force the EEC,CAP, and the EURATOM
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Merger Treaty
The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, was a European treaty which unified the executive institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the European Economic Community (EEC) -
European Council
The European Council defines the general political orientations and priorities of the EU. It is not one of the legislative institutions of the EU -
Spain and Portugal enter the EU
After Spain and Portugal entered the EU, there were 12 members -
Fall of the Berlin wall, Germany is together again
The Berlin Wall was a dividing wall that between 1961 and 1989 separated the city of Berlin, in present-day Germany, into two sectors. -
European heads of state sing the Maastricht Treaty, European Union is created
The Maastricht Treaty laid down the foundation for the European Union. The treaty was signed by 12 countries in the Dutch city of Maastricht in 1992 and went into effect in 1993. The agreement established greater cooperation between member states through economic, social, and legal channels -
Single market
The internal market of the European Union ', also known as the single European market or European common market, is one of the economic integration instruments of the Union, consisting of the establishment of a common market among the member states. -
Schengen (signed agreement)
-The EU grows to 15 members
-The Schengen Agreement signed on June 14, 1985, is a treaty that led most of the European countries towards the abolishment of their national borders, to build a Europe without borders known as the “Schengen Area”, it started to work in 1995. -
Treaty of Amsterdam
Under the Treaty of Amsterdam, member states agreed to transfer certain powers from national governments to the European Parliament across diverse areas -
European central bank
-Its located in Frankfurt -
Euro launched officially
The new currency, the euro, was officially issued on January 1, 1999. -
The treaty of Nice
The Nice Treaty was an international treaty signed on February 26, 2000, whose objective was to reform the institutional structure of the European Union -
Constitutional treaty
-25 members in the EU
-They proposed to establish a new Inter-Governmental Conference with a view to writing a new treaty which would rewrite the Maastricht Treaty, amend the Treaty of Rome and give the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union a legally binding status -
The treaty of Lisbon
-27 members in the EU
-The Lisbon Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Lisbon, updated regulations for the European Union, establishing a more centralized leadership and foreign policy, a proper process for countries that wish to leave the Union, and a streamlined process for enacting new policies. -
Financial crisis (Eurozone)
-The “pigs”(Irland,Grecce,Spain,Portugal etc)
- It has aspects of a sovereign debt crisis, the banking system and the economic system in general -
European migrant crisis
+Croatia to the EU -
Mora than 1million migrants
-The crisis is a huge problem -
Brexit idea and process
The process of withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union began once the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which happened on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 -
Brexit its a reality
-The UK exits the Eu