Chapter 1

Question 1

Which are the three IOs which led to the creation of the Eu?

Answer 1

1) The European Coal and Steel Community
2) The European Atomic Energy Community
3) The European Economic Community

Question 2

What was the scope of the EEC? Could it act directly upon individuals?

Answer 2

Create a common market both in industrial and agricultural products. Yes, it was designed to be directly applicable within the national legal orders

Question 3

Which communities were established in the 1952 Paris Treaty?

Answer 3

1) European Defence Community
2) European Political Community

Question 4

What did the Werner Report created?

Answer 4

The European Monetary System in 1979 in order to ensure growth and stability in the economic and monetary realm

Question 5

What did the Davignon Report created?

Answer 5

The European Political Cooperation to ensure greater mutual understanding, to in crease solidarity and harmonisation of views

Question 6

What does the Single European Act (1986) combine? What it doesn’t include?

Answer 6

It combines the European Political Cooperation and the European Economic Community.
1) It does not bring the European Monetary System
2) It does integrate Foreign Affairs and Justice and Home Affairs (not in the Treaties)
3) It does not elevate it to a Community Institution

Question 7

When was the Treaty of Maastricht signed?

Answer 7

1992

Question 8

When was the Treaty of Amsterdam signed?

Answer 8

1997

Question 9

When was the Treaty of Nice signed?

Answer 9

2001

Question 10

When was the Treaty of Lisbon signed?

Answer 10

2007

Question 11

When was the Schengen Agreement signed?

Answer 11

1985

Question 12

When was the Treaty of Rome signed?

Answer 12

1957

Question 13

Which are the three pillars of the (old) EU?

Answer 13

1) European Communities
2) Common Foreign and Security Policy
3) Justice and Home Affairs

Question 14

What is the Trevi Mechanism?

Answer 14

A political instrument to fight international terrorism with the scope enlarged to the coordination of police and judicial effort to combat organised crime

Question 15

What was the Amsterdam Treaty about?

Answer 15

It brought changes in the first pillar from the third one

Question 16

Why the Schengen Agreement could not be incorporated into the EU?

Answer 16

1) Not all MS were part of the Schengen Agreement
2) Non-MS were part of the Schengen Agreement
3) It could not be incorporated in one piece

Question 17

What was the Nice Treaty about?

Answer 17

It covered the Amsterdam leftovers in a Protocol on the Enlargement of the EU. Provisions about the composition of the EP, the Council and the Commission.

Question 18

What did the Nice Treaty proclaim?

Answer 18

A Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU

Question 19

How can the Lisbon Treaty be defined?

Answer 19

The failed Constitutional Treaty

Question 20

Why did the Constitutional Treaty fail and when?

Answer 20

In 2004 because it has to be ratified by all MS but France and the Netherlands did not. So after a reflection period (2y), the EC abandoned the idea and the 2007 Lisbon Treaty covered the same aspects.

Question 21

What does the TEU contain?

Answer 21

General provisions defining the Union

Question 22

What does the TFEU contain?

Answer 22

Specific provisions with regard to the Union institutions and policies

Question 23

How many legal personalities does the EU have?

Answer 23

Just one single legal personality

Question 24

What is Art.10 TEU about?

Answer 24

It is about the functioning of the EU which is founded on representative democracy, which is offered both directly (EP) and indirectly (other institutions)