Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Self-published map of a visionary central European union, 1920, by an enigmatic P. Andreas Mullner 1922 European flag of the Paneuropean Union A 1928 Europa coin for the hypothetical "Federated States of Europe" (États fédérés d'Europe) World War I devastated Europe's society and economy, and the Versailles Treaty failed to establish a ...
The following timeline outlines the legal inception of the European Union (EU)—the principal framework for this unification. The EU inherited many of its present responsibilities from the European Communities (EC), which were founded in the 1950s in the spirit of the Schuman Declaration.
Accusations that this was a U-turn on the EU treaties, which rule out any bail out of a euro member in order to encourage them to manage their finances better, were countered by the argument that these were loans, not grants, and that neither the EU nor other Member States assumed any liabilities for the debts of the aided countries.
This is a list of meetings of the European Council (informally referred to as EU summits); the meetings of the European Council, an institution of the European Union (EU) comprising heads of state or government of EU member states. They started in 1975 as tri-annual meetings.
[1] In 1960 the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established and was formed by Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. These countries were often referred to as the Outer Seven, as opposed to the Inner Six of the founding members of the European Community (EC). [2]
However, President Charles de Gaulle saw British membership as a Trojan Horse for U.S. influence and vetoed membership, [11] and the applications of all four countries were suspended. [12] Greece became the first country to join the EC in 1961 as an associate member, however its membership was suspended in 1967 after a coup d'état established ...
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. They have agreed by the treaties to share their own sovereignty through the institutions of the European Union in certain aspects of government.
After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Europe's borders were largely stable. 1708 map by Herman Moll.. International relations from 1648 to 1814 covers the major interactions of the nations of Europe, as well as the other continents, with emphasis on diplomacy, warfare, migration, and cultural interactions, from the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna.