European Integration - An Overview
European Union, the European organisation dedicated to increasing economic integration and strengthening cooperation among its member states. The European Union was established on November 1, 1993, when the Treaty on European Union or Maastricht Treaty, was approved by the twelve members of the European Community (EC); Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Upon agreement of the treaty, the countries of the EC became members of the EU, and the EC became the policy-making body of the EU.
Under the Treaty on European Union, European citizenship was granted to citizens of each member state. Customs and ...
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and the European Atomic Community (Euratom), both set up in 1957. The three institutions merged in 1967, creating the EC and establishing headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The latter proved to be of little importance because each national government kept control of its nuclear programmes.
Economically, the EEC treaty legalised, over a twelve-year period, the elimination of trade barriers among member nations, the development of a common tariff for imports from the rest of the world, and the creation of a common policy for managing and supporting agriculture. Politically, the treaty gave a greater role to national governments than had the earlier ECSC treaty, though it did provide for the EEC to become more supranational as economic integration progressed. In response to EEC, Great Britain and six other non-EEC countries formed the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1960. In 1961, with the EEC's apparent economic success, Great Britain began negotiations towards membership. ...
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