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Timeline European Union

  • The end of World War II (WWII)

    The end of World War II (WWII)
  • Start of Cold War

    Start of Cold War
    The world is debited
    -USA
    -USSR (soviet union)
  • Franco-German reconciliation

    Franco-German reconciliation
    Idea of Robert Schuman (French Prime Minister)
  • European Coal and Steel Community

    European Coal and Steel Community
    Six countries sing a treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel community
    -Luxembourg
    -Italy
    -France
    -Belgium
    -The Netherlands
    -the German Federal Republic (FRG, commonly known as West Germany)
  • Treaty of Rome

    Treaty of Rome
    -EEC: European Economic Community + (CAP: Commun Agriculty Politicy)
    -EURATOM: European Atomic Energy Policity
  • Enter in force the EEC,CAP, and the EURATOM

  • Merger Treaty

    Merger Treaty
    The Merger Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Brussels, was a European treaty which unified the executive institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the European Economic Community (EEC)
  • European Council

    European Council
    The European Council defines the general political orientations and priorities of the EU. It is not one of the legislative institutions of the EU
  • Spain and Portugal enter the EU

    Spain and Portugal enter the EU
    After Spain and Portugal entered the EU, there were 12 members
  • Fall of the Berlin wall, Germany is together again

    Fall of the Berlin wall, Germany is together again
    The Berlin Wall was a dividing wall that between 1961 and 1989 separated the city of Berlin, in present-day Germany, into two sectors.
  • European heads of state sing the Maastricht Treaty, European Union is created

    European heads of state sing the Maastricht Treaty, European Union is created
    The Maastricht Treaty laid down the foundation for the European Union. The treaty was signed by 12 countries in the Dutch city of Maastricht in 1992 and went into effect in 1993. The agreement established greater cooperation between member states through economic, social, and legal channels
  • Single market

    Single market
    The internal market of the European Union ', also known as the single European market or European common market, is one of the economic integration instruments of the Union, consisting of the establishment of a common market among the member states.
  • Schengen (signed agreement)

    Schengen (signed agreement)
    -The EU grows to 15 members
    -The Schengen Agreement signed on June 14, 1985, is a treaty that led most of the European countries towards the abolishment of their national borders, to build a Europe without borders known as the “Schengen Area”, it started to work in 1995.
  • Treaty of Amsterdam

    Treaty of Amsterdam
    Under the Treaty of Amsterdam, member states agreed to transfer certain powers from national governments to the European Parliament across diverse areas
  • European central bank

    European central bank
    -Its located in Frankfurt
  • Euro launched officially

    Euro launched officially
    The new currency, the euro, was officially issued on January 1, 1999.
  • The treaty of Nice

    The treaty of Nice
    The Nice Treaty was an international treaty signed on February 26, 2000, whose objective was to reform the institutional structure of the European Union
  • Constitutional treaty

    Constitutional treaty
    -25 members in the EU
    -They proposed to establish a new Inter-Governmental Conference with a view to writing a new treaty which would rewrite the Maastricht Treaty, amend the Treaty of Rome and give the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union a legally binding status
  • The treaty of Lisbon

    The treaty of Lisbon
    -27 members in the EU
    -The Lisbon Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Lisbon, updated regulations for the European Union, establishing a more centralized leadership and foreign policy, a proper process for countries that wish to leave the Union, and a streamlined process for enacting new policies.
  • Financial crisis (Eurozone)

    Financial crisis (Eurozone)
    -The “pigs”(Irland,Grecce,Spain,Portugal etc)
    - It has aspects of a sovereign debt crisis, the banking system and the economic system in general
  • European migrant crisis

    European migrant crisis
    +Croatia to the EU
  • Mora than 1million migrants

    -The crisis is a huge problem
  • Brexit idea and process

    Brexit idea and process
    The process of withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union began once the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, which happened on Wednesday, March 29, 2017
  • Brexit its a reality

    -The UK exits the Eu