VWL 2 (Subject) / Präsentation 4 - Milestones of European Integration (Lesson)
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Milestones of European Integration
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- History of Europe Cold War, -> America wanted control in Middle Europe, Block communism --> Used NATO, Council of Europe 1950: ECSC--> No more War. Coal and Steel for Weapons, FRANCE, Germany 1957: Cuncil of Rome-> Founding Europe 1967: European Community 1993: Maastricht 1999: Eurozone
- Reasons of European Integration Avoiding another WW several Intention: France: Counterbalancing US-UK influence + economic partners UK and US: Counter spread of communism Germany: Re-established Germany as "normal" nation Italy: Shutting door to Italy's facist past Benelux: Avoid another Franco-German war --> Freedom, economoic Force ! , Communism
- Drivers Sucess of OEEC EMS
- Obstacles postwar-era giving up sovereignty Europeans Defence Community currency snake dictatorship refusals
- Eurosclerosis tarrrif barries fell -> trade barriers protect customers -> 1971: Monetary Union and trade Union failed Margaret Thatcher refuses Payments to EEC GB did not benefit Crisis: EMS failed, oil crisis 1973, national action, not international