POLS 3435 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Single European Act, Treaty Establishing The European Defence Community, European Political Community
14 Sep 2016
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Serious efforts to integrate the europe only date back to the end of the second world war. Security in the face of cold war tension. Efforts to prevent european nationalism spilling over once again into conflict. Worries about relationship between france and germany. Council of europe was a beginning step. Bringing coal and steel industries under a joint authority. Next was eec with the same six member states. Development of a single market within which there would be free movement of people, money, and services and common policies on agriculture, competition, trade and transport. Britain, denmark, and ireland and then greece. Set a five-year deadline for the removal of remaining barriers. Eu membership soon increased to 28 members. Eu was born out of the ruins of wwii. Before the war, europe had dominated global trade, banking and finance. War was a near-fatal blow to europe"s global influence. Allowed the us and soviet union to arise as super powers.
