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UE HISTORY

By Marco Giraldi

  • The end of the Second World War

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    UE HISTORY

  • Treaty of Paris creates Coal and Steel Community

  • Treaty of Rome creates European Economic Community

  • Charles de Gaulle votoes UK entry

  • Ankara Agreement

    Ankara Agreement started a three-step process toward creating a Customs Union wich would help secure Turkey's full membersgip in the EEC.

  • The Marger Treaty

    The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, was a European treaty that unified the executive institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Economic Community (EEC).

  • Accession of Denmark, Ireland and the UK

  • First direct election to Parliament

  • Accession of Greece

  • Delors Commision

    Greenland leaves Community

  • Single European Act

    The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community, an objective of establishing a single market by 31 December 1992, and codified European Political Cooperation, the forerunner of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).

  • Accession of Portugal and Spain

  • Flag adopted

  • The fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe

    The Iron Curtain was a political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union (USSR) to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states.

  • Maastricht Treaty( The Treaty of European Union

    The European Union is born and Euro was introduced as the fellow currency (Denmark and the UK are not included in the EMU (European Monetary Union).

  • Copenhagen criteria defined

    The Copenhagen criteria are the rules that define whether a country is eligible to join the European Union. The criteria require that a state has the institutions to preserve democratic governance and human rights, has a functioning market economy, and accepts the obligations and intent of the EU.

  • Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden

  • Fraud in the Commission results in resignation

  • The euro replaces twelve national currencies

  • Accession of ten coutries

    Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia

  • Signing of Costitution

  • France and the Netherlands reject the Constitution after own internal referendums

  • Accession of Bulgaria and Romania

  • Lisbon Treaty abolishes the three pillars of the European Union

  • Accession of Croatia

  • UK holds a Mambership Referendum and votoes to leave the European Union

  • Negotiations between UK and the UE officially started in June 2017

  • Start of Brexit

    The Governament of the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. The UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 at 11 p.m. GMT, when the period for negotiating a withdrawal agreement was set to end

  • UK leaves the UE after the Brexit withdrawal agreement takes effect on 31 Jennuary 2020