4.4 European cooperation
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Learning objectives 4.4
Learning objectives 4.4
1) I can name the causes leading to Western European states cooperating and can describe how that cooperation developed.
2) I can explain why the European Economic Community and later the European Union were expanded.
3) I can explain why some Europeans have doubts about the usefulness of European cooperation.
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Western Europe starts working together
1. Avoid a new war
2. Afraid of spreading of communism
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European cooperation
* 1951 European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
* Supervised the production of coal and steel
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European Economic Community
* 1957
* EEC
* Agreements about
- Trade
- Transport
- Agriculture
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European cooperation
* EEC big succes
1. More countries joined the cooperation (U.K.)
2. Cooperate in more fields -> safety and environment
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European cooperation
* Condition membership EEC: country must be a parliamentary democracy
Advantages:
1. Poor countries benefit
2. Countries remain democratic
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European cooperation
* 1980's Greece, Portugal, Spain joined
* 1985 Schengen Agreement (borders abolished)
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Communism collapsed
* 1989
* More democracies in Eastern Europe
* Many joined the EU in 2004
* Prosperity increased
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European Union
* 1992
* EU
- Independent -> own government
- European Parliament (elected) has to agree to decisions
- 2002 introduced a new currency (Euro)
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Put the events in the correct order
1) Brexit
2) Eastern European countries join EU
3) Euro introduced
4) European Coal and Steel community
5) European Economic Community founded
6) European Union founded
7) Schengen agreement signed
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Assignment: Find and fix
Read Euroscepticism and Brexit on p42.
Fix the mistakes in the following statements.
1) Shortly after 1989, Western European countries began asking to become EU members.
2) Migrant workers from Southern Europe moved to Eastern Europe to look for work.
3) Some people felt that the European Union had too little power.
4) Inhabitants of Western countries weren't too pleased about the fact that migrant workers earned higher wages.
5) Some people in Western Europe were afraid that not enough EU money was invested in the economies of Southern and Eastern Europe.
6) Euroscepticists like their countries to remain in the EU.
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Learning objectives 4.4
Learning objectives 4.4
1) I can name the causes leading to Western European states cooperating and can describe how that cooperation developed.
2) I can explain why the European Economic Community and later the European Union were expanded.
3) I can explain why some Europeans have doubts about the usefulness of European cooperation.
