Complete the Sentences Flashcards
The Spanish seafarer who discovered America was ________.
Cristoforo Colombo
The term “iron curtain” separating East and Western Europe was created in 1946 by __________.
Sir Winston Churchill
The initiative of the USA to rebuild Europe after the second world war was called _____________ plan.
Marshall
____________ (French foreign minister) on 9 May 1950, proposed establishing a European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
Robert Schuman
The Treaties of Rome of 1957 built two European Communities:
- the ____________ based on a wider common market covering a whole range of goods and services, and
- the ____________ for the peaceful use of nuclear technologies for energy production.
European Economic Community (EEC)
European Atomic Energy Communtiy (Euratom)
The Treaty creating the European Union in 1991 named after the town in the Netherlands where it was signed is the “________Treaty”.
Maastricht
The major achievement of the Single European Act of 1986 was the creation of a ___________.
Single European Market
The Treaty replacing a “European Constitution” becoming effective 1 Jan. 2009 is called the Treaty of ________.
Lisbon
The ______ is the meeting of Heads of State and Government (i.e. presidents and/or prime ministers) of all the EU countries, plus the President of the European Commission, and is the highest-level policy-making body in the European Union.
European Council (summit)
The ______________ refers to government ministers from all the EU countries meeting regularly to take detailed decisions and to pass EU laws.
Council of Ministers
The ____________ is the ‘Guardian of the Treaties’ and has to ensure that the regulations and directives adopted by the Council and Parliament are being implemented in the member states.
European Commission
The “financial conscience” of the European Union is the ___________.
Court of Auditors
The ________________ is the European Union’s long-term lending institution supporting the EU’s priority objectives, especially European integration and the development of economically weak regions, by providing loans for e.g. large infrastructure networks of transport, energy and telecommunications.
European Investment Bank (EIB)
A „New Common Agricultural Policy“ was developed where the amount of financial support given to a farmer has been largely decoupled from the production volume and ___________ criteria for subsidizing the farming activities have been introduced.
Environmental
The _____ introduced 1 Jan. 2002 is the key element of the Economic and Monetary Union.
Euro
______________ is the EU agency responsible for external border control between the Schengen region and other countries by coordinating the activities of the national border guards.
European Border and Coast Guard Agency
__________ is a multinational temporary military group set up
under the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) for peacekeeping missions of limited duration.
EUFOR
The European Union has now _____ million inhabitants.
450
The Motto of the European Union is _________________.
United in Diversity
The ______________ is the body that represents the EU’s citizens and which exercises political supervision over the EU’s activities.
European Parliament
The EU judicial system consists of 2 levels: The higher level is called __________.
The European Court of Justice
The EU judicial system consists of 2 levels: The lower level is called _______________.
The General Court
The ____________________ (Stockholm) has the task to strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Formally the __________ is the only body with the „Right of Initiative“.
The European Commission
