European Union
I. European Economic Community (EEC)
A. Schuman Plan (1950)
1. starts with Coal and Steel
2. making up for the mistakes of
the past
B. Treaty of
Rome (1957)
1. customs union
2. common agricultural policy
3. Executive --Commission and Council of Ministers
4. Legislature--European Parliament
5. European Court
C. Problem of
national autonomy
1. De Gaulle's vision of federal
union
2. Britain delays. Admitted in 1972
3. Norway rejects membership altogether
II. Single Europe Act (1986)
A. Integration
of European economies
1. free movement of capital, goods, people (1993)
2. single currency, central bank (2002)
a. British and Danes opt out for now
III. Expansion of the EU
A.
Incorporation of former Communist Countries
1. implications for both sides
2. New Europe vs. Old Europe?
B. Adopting a new Constitution
1. Lisbon Treaty (signed 2007; ratified
2009)
C. Question of
Turkey
1. European nation?
2. Civil rights concerns
3. significance of admitting a Muslim nation
IV. Problems facing Europe today
A. Debt crisis and financial policy for
Euro Zone
B. Divisions fostered by new expansion
C. Nationalist
feelings vs. full integration
D. Population
decline
E. Race and
foreign workers