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CONTENTS
Overview
Objectives
Flag
History of EU
Treaties
Monetary union
The European Central Bank (ECB)
Agricultural Policy
Culture 1Dr. Sherko [email protected]
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The European Union
The European Union (EU) is an economic and
political union of 27 member states which are
located primarily in Europe.
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Overview
Political centers
- Brussels
- Luxembourg
- Strasbourg
Leaders
- European Council: Herman Van Rompuy
- Commission: Jos Manuel Barroso
- Parliament: Jerzy Buzek
- Council of ministers: Hungary
Area
- Total : 4,324,782 km2
- Water (%) :3.08
Official languages : 23
Population - (2010) :
- Total : 501,064,211
- Density: 115.9/km2
GDP 2009 :
- Total: us$16.447 trillion
- Per capita: us$33,052
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formally established at: 1993
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1. Elimination of custom duties among member states.
2. Elimination of obstacles to the free flow of import and
export of goods and services among member nations.
3. Establishment of common custom duties and unitedindustrial/commercial policies regarding countries
outside the community.
4. Free movement of capital and people within the block.
5. Acceptance of common agricultural policies,transportation policies ,technical standards health and
safety regulations.
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6. Common measures for consumer protection.
7. Common laws to maintain competition throughout the
community and to fight monopolies or illegal cartels.
8. Regional fund to encourage economic development of
certain regions.
9. Greater monetary and fiscal coordination among
member states and certain common fiscal policies.
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Flag
o It is the symbol of the European Union
o the symbol of Europe's unity and
identity in a wider sense.oThe circle of gold stars represents
solidarity and harmony between thepeoples of Europe.
oThere are 12 stars because the number12 is traditionally the symbol ofperfection, completeness and unity.
The history of the flag goes
back to 1955.
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1952 1-Belgium 2-France 3-Germany 4-Italy 5-Luxembourg 6-Netherlands
1973 7-Denmark 8-Ireland 9-UK
1981 10-Greece
1986 11-Portugal 12-Spain
1995 13-Austria 14-Finland 15-Sweden2004 16-Cyprus 17-Czech 18-Estonia 19-Hungary 20-Latvia 21-Lithuania
22-Malta 23-Poland 24Slovakia 25-Slovenia
2007 26-Bulgaria 27-Romani
Candidate Countries
Croatia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Iceland
Potential candidate CountriesAlbania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia
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Procedure of Joining EU
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To join the EU a country must meet the Copenhagen criteria, defined
at the 1993 Copenhagen European Council:
1. stable democracy that respects human rights and the rule of law
2.functioning market economy capable ofcompetition within the EU
3.the acceptance of the obligations of membership, including EU law.
Evaluation of a country's fulfillment of the criteria is the responsibility
of the European Council.
No member state has ever left the Union, though Greenland withdrewin 1985.
The Lisbon Treatynow provides a clause dealing with how a member
leaves the EU.
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1. The historical roots of the European Union lie in the
Second World War. Soon after the war, Europe is split
into East and West as the 40-year-long Cold War
begins. West European nations create the Council ofEurope in 1949. It is a first step towards cooperation
between them.
Founding Member States:Germany, France, Italy, theNetherlands,
Belgium and Luxembourg.
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2- 1952, The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
was a six-nation international organization serving to
unify Western Europe during the Cold War and create
the foundation for the modern-day developments of
the European Union. The ECSC was the first
organization to be based on the principles
of supranationalism.
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957, these six countries signed theT
reaties of Romewhich extended the earlier cooperation within the
European Coal and Steel Community and created the
European Economic Community, (EEC)
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4- 1973, the Communities enlarged to include Denmark,Ireland and the United Kingdom
5- 1979, the first direct, democratic elections to the
European Parliament were held.
6- 1985, the Schengen Agreement led the way toward thecreation of open borders without passport controls
between most member states and some non-member
states.
7- 1986 the European flag began to be used by theCommunity and the Single European Act was signed.
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8- 1990, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the former EastGermany became part of the Community as part of a
newly united Germany. With enlargement toward
Eastern and Central Europe on the agenda, the
Copenhagen criteria for candidate members to jointhe European Union were agreed.
9- 1993, The European Union was formally established
when the Maastricht Treaty came into force on 1
November 1993.9- 2002, euro notes and coins replaced national
currencies in 12 of the member states
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10- 2007, European leaders signed the Lisbon Treaty
which was intended to replace the earlier, failed
European Constitution, which never came into force
after being rejected by French and Dutch voters.!
11- 2009, the Lisbon Treaty was ratified by all countries
and expected to go into effect soon
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Treaties1
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Treaties2Brussels Treaty (1948-49) was signedbetween Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and
the United Kingdom, as an expansion to the preceding year's
defense pledge, the Dunkirk Treaty signed between Britain and
France. As the Treaty of Brussels contained a mutual defense clause.
The Treaty ofParis (1951-52) (formally the Treaty establishing the
European Coal and Steel Community) was signed on 1951 between
France, West Germany, Italy and the three Benelux countries
(Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands)
(1952) established the European Coal and Steel
Community (ECSC), because of F Some of the main enemies during
the war were now sharing production of coal and steel, the key-
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Treaties3Modifying Brussels Treaty The London and ParisConferences (1954, 1955) were two related conferences
in London and Paris to determine the status of West Germany.
The Treaties of Rome (1957) are two treaties that they were thefollowing:
The Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy
Community (the EAEC Treaty; often referred to as the Euratom Treaty)
The Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community (the EEC Treaty; often referred to as the Treaty of Rome).
The Merger Treaty (1965) was a European treaty which combined
the executive bodies of the (ECSC), (Euratom) and (EEC) into a
single institutional structure.16
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Treaties4The Single European Act (SEA) (1986) was the first major revisionof the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European
Community an objective of establishing a Single Market and
codified European Political Cooperation, the forerunner of
the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy.
The Treaty of Maastricht (formally, the Treaty on European
Union, -TE)) (1992) it created the European Union and led to the
creation of the single European currency, the euro. The Maastricht
Treaty has been amended to a degree by later treaties
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Treaties5 The Amsterdam Treaty (1997) meant a greater emphasis on
citizenship and the rights of individuals, an attempt to achieve
more democracy in the shape of increased powers for
the European Parliament, a new title on employment, a
Community area of freedom, security and justice, thebeginnings of a common foreign and security policy (CFSP)
and the reform of the institutions in the run-up to
enlargement
The Treaty of Nice (2001) The Treaty of Nice reformed the
institutional structure of the European Union to withstandeastward expansion, a task which was originally intended to
have been done by the Amsterdam Treaty, but failed to be
addressed at the time.
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Treaties6 The Treaty of Lisbon (initially known as the Reform Treaty
2007)) Prominent changes included the move from required
unanimity to double majority voting in several policy areas in
the Council of Ministers, a more powerful European
Parliament as its role of forming a bicameral legislaturealongside the Council of Ministers becomes the ordinary
procedure, a consolidated legal personality for the EU and the
creation of a long-term President of the European
Council and a High Representative of the Union for Foreign
Affairs and Security Policy. The Treaty also made the Union'sbill of rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, legally
binding.
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Single market The euro is designed to help build a single market by:1. easing travel of citizens and goods
2. eliminating exchange rate problems
3. providing price transparency
4. creating a single financial market
5. price stability and low interest rates
6. providing a currency used internationally and protected
against shocks by the large amount of internal trade within
the Eurozone. It is also intended as a political symbol of integration and
stimulus for more.
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Monetary union1
The creation of a European single currency
became an official objective of the European
Economic Community in 1969. However, it
was only with the advent of the MaastrichtTreaty in 1993 that member states were
legally bound to start the monetary union no
later than1
January1
999.On 1999 date the euro was launched by
11 member states of the EU.
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Monetary union2 The Eurozone has since grown to 17 countries, All other EU
member states, except Denmark and the United Kingdom, are
legally bound to join the euro when the convergence
criteria are met, however only a few countries have set target
dates for accession.
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Monetary union3
Since its launch the euro has become the second reservecurrency in the world with a quarter of foreign exchanges
reserves being in euro.
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Euro exchange rate (2010)
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The European Central Bank (ECB)
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank for theeurozone (consisting of the EU member states which have
adopted the euro), and thus controls monetary policy in that
area with an agenda to maintain price stability.
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It is at the centre of the European Systemof Central Banks, which comprehends all EU
national banks, and is guided by a boardcomprising of the President of the European
Central Bank, who is appointed by the
European Council, and national bank
governors.
The European Central Bank in Frankfurt
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Agricultural Policy1
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of theoldest policies of the European Community, and wasone of its core aims. The policy has the objectives of:
a) increasing agricultural productionb) providing certainty in food suppliesc) ensuring a high quality of life for farmersd) stabilizing markets
e) ensuring reasonable prices for consumers.It was, until recently, operated by a system of subsidies
and market intervention.
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Agricultural Policy2Since the beginning of the 1990s, the CAP has been subject to
a series of reforms.
Initially these reforms included the introduction of set-aside in
1988, where a proportion of farm land was deliberately
withdrawn from production, milk quotas (1992) and, morerecently, the 'de-coupling' (or disassociation) of the money
farmers receive from the EU and the amount they produce
(2004).
Agriculture expenditure will move away from subsidypayments linked to specific produce, toward direct payments
based on farm size. This is intended to allow the market to
dictate production levels, while maintaining agricultural
income levels.26
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Culture
Eurostat (2005), "Social values, Science and Technology", Special
Eurobarometer 225 (Europa, web portal): pp. 9, retrieved 11 June 2009.
The percentage of
Europeans in each
member state whobelieve in "a God"
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