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France's location in the European Union Election campaign poster by the Action Française party in favour of Frexit. Frexit (a portmanteau of "French" or "France" and "exit") is the hypothetical French withdrawal from the European Union (EU). The term is similar to Brexit, which denotes the UK leaving the EU.
The agreement is to be approved on the EU side by the Council of the EU, acting by qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament. For the agreement to pass the Council of the EU it needs to be approved by at least 72 percent of the continuing member states representing at least 65 percent of their population. [18]
The Agreement was in the form of a Decision of Council. [31] The part of the agreement, which only applied to Denmark, relating to citizenship was as follows: The provisions of Part Two of the Treaty establishing the European Community relating to citizenship of the Union give nationals of the Member States additional rights and protection as ...
Speculation followed about other countries, such as Italy, withdrawing from the Eurozone as well, [5] with economist Nouriel Roubini submitting in 2011 that "Italy may, like other periphery countries [of the Eurozone], need to exit the euro and go back to a national currency, thus triggering an effective break-up of the Eurozone."
A referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was held in France on 29 May 2005 to decide whether the French government should ratify the proposed constitution of the European Union. The result was a victory for the "no" campaign, with 55% of voters rejecting the treaty on a turnout of 69%.
Some EU members have expressed alarm at the extra time involved in the new processes, with the Slovenian government warning: “It takes up to four times longer to do the new process.” For ...
With concerns over the EU's ability to intervene where its core principles and values were violated, there was a desire to introduce some mechanism before enlargement to those states took place. This came to be via the Treaty of Amsterdam which allowed the suspension of rights of a member state which breached the EU's values under Article 2. [2]
ETIAS was first proposed by the European Commission in 2016 [8] and was formally established by Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 of the European Parliament and of the European Council of 12 September 2018. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Due to various reasons, including difficulties in integrating different member states' national systems into a central database, the ...