Timeline Flashcards
1952
European Defence Community - Not ratified - Fail
European Political Community - Not ratified - Fail
1956
Algerian War, Suez Canal, USSR invades Hungary
1961
Fouchet Plan - Defense proposal
UK applies to EEC
1969
Hague Summit - EU integration (complete, widen and deepen)
1974
European Council created
Economic and social crisis (because no oil and protectionism)
1979
First EP elections
1991
2 intergovernmental conferences - Political and Monetary Union
1996
IGC on enlargement - Institutional changes
1999
Santer Commission resigns
Intro of Euro
2000
Nice Treaty - Voting changes (from QMV to triple majority), institutional changes
2001
9/11
Laeken declaration on the future of Europe - Maybe European Constitution?
2002
Euro official sole currency