political context for securing peace. There were six founding member states namely Belgium‚ France‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ Luxembourg and Netherlands. The 1950’s were dominated by some cold wars between east and west and protests in Hungary. Also in 1957 the treaty of Rome was signed which created the European Economic Community or ‘Common Market’. 1960-79 It was known as the period of economic growth and ‘Youth culture’‚ EU countries stopped charging custom duties while trading between each other’s‚ they
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after the FDP lost all of its representation in the Bundestag.[4] In 2007‚ Merkel was President of the European Council and chaired the G8‚ the second woman (after Margaret Thatcher) to do so. She played a central role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Berlin Declaration. One of her priorities was
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the volume and complexity of employment law that originates in the EU has grown considerably. When the UK joined the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973‚ membership brought with it few requirements in the field of employment regulation. The Treaty of Rome contained an article committing member states to enforce the principle of equal pay for equal work between men and women‚ but this was already in the process of being introduced in the UK at that time. Later‚ as the European Economic Community
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protection was not mentioned in the Treaty of Rome (1958)‚ and it was not until 1972 that the first of a series of European Environmental Action Plans (EAP) was launched. The Single European Act (1986) marked the beginning of a more prominent role for environmental protection in EU policy-making‚ introducing the principal that environmental protection should be considered in all new Community legislation. EU environmental policy was substantially expanded by the Treaties of Maastricht (1992) and Amsterdam
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United Kingdom‚ and United States. Background: The Brussels Treaty of 1948‚ revised in 1984‚ represented the first step in the post-war reconstruction of Western European security and brought into being the Western Union and the Brus-sels Treaty Organization. It was also the first step in the process leading to the signature of the North At-lantic Treaty in 1949 and the creation of the North Atlantic Alliance. The Brussels Treaty is the found-ing document of the present day Western European Union
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spirit has been able to manifest itself through the evolutionary creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)‚ the European Economic Community (EEC) and finally the European Union (EU)‚ through the Treaty of Paris (1951) and the Treaties of Rome (1957)‚ Maastricht (1992) and finally Lisbon (2007). The ECSC was created in the wake of Europe’s need to rebuild as a primarily economic cooperative focused on the resources of the British occupied Ruhr Valley. Initially evolving into a union to promote
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persons is said to be one of the four fundamental freedoms of European Union law‚ along with the free movement of goods‚ services‚ and capital‚ and one of the essential components of the internal market. i) The primary legislation: Treaty on European Union (Lisbon consolidated): Art 3 (2): “The Union shall offer its citizens an area of freedom‚ security and justice without internal frontiers‚ in which the free movement of persons is ensured with respect to external border controls‚ asylum‚
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The European Union The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political union of 7 member states which are located primarily in Europe. Its capital is Brussels. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community‚ formed by the Inner Six countries‚ which were France‚ Italy‚ West Germany‚ Luxembourg‚ Belgium and the Netherlands‚ in 1951 and 1958 respectively. In the intervening years the community and its successors have grown size by
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empire for the spheres of influence some Azerbaijani entities were forced to conclude vassal agreements in order to defend their interests. Thus‚ under the treaty of 1805 the independent Azerbaijani khanate of Karabagh was placed under Russian overlordship. As a result of Russian-Iranian war of 1804-1813 and on the basis of the peace treaties of Gulistan and Turkmanchay‚ the Karabakh khanate together with Erivan and Nakhchevan khanates was included into the Russian Empire . It was exactly in that
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What is the single market? Establishment of Free market Pros - single monetary value Cons - Race to the bottom shittier stuff How did the EU use regulatory policy - Only UCB can set interest rate Types of economic policies Deregulator policy - beer is beer Expenditure Policy - How states spend money and EU spends its own money Macroeconomic Policy - Monetary policies go ounder Macro Normative approach - take from rich to give to the poor‚ don’t want more environmental policy Expenditure
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