Transcript Globalisation and Regionalisation I: general

Introduction: The idea of Europe
and EU history
Prof. Andreas Bieler
Structure of the lecture
1.
Explanation of module guide;
2.
‘Integration’;
3.
EU member states;
4.
Key dates in EU history;
5.
Key EU institutions;
2. ‘Integration’:
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integration involves the partial transfer of sovereignty
to supranational institutions and/or the pooling of
sovereignty via QMV (Nugent 2006: 108-9) in the
Council of Ministers;
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co-operation implies that nation states fully retain
their sovereignty and cannot be outvoted at the
international level;
3. EU member states:
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1952 European Coal and Steel Community: France,
Italy, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands;
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1973 first enlargement: Britain, Ireland and Denmark
join the EU;
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1981 accession of Greece to the EU;
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1986 accession of Spain and Portugal to the EU;
EU member states:
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1995 accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden to
the EU;
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2004 accession of 8 Central and Eastern European
countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia) as
well as Malta and Cyprus;

2007 Bulgaria and Romania join the EU, bringing the
number of EU members up to 27;
Member States of European Union
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