History of Integration Flashcards
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It is one of the patterns of development
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Integration
2
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Give six examples of major international economic organizations
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NAFTA MERCOSUR Andean Community EU ASEAN APEC
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What does NAFTA mean?
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North America Free Trade Area
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What countries are in NAFTA?
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Canada, United States and Mexico
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What countries are in MERCOSUR?
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Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay
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What does MERCOSUR mean?
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Mercado Comun del Cono Sur
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What countries are in the Andean Community?
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Columbia, Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela
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What are the countries in EU?
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Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
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What are the countries in ASEAN?
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Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam
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What countries are in APEC?
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Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United States
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What does ASEAN mean?
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations
12
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What does APEC mean?
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Asian Pacific Economic Community
13
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What are the eight causes of international integration?
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a) need for profitable production
b) growth of size of production units
c) cooperation between industrial sectors
d) intensification of research and development
e) creation of an extensive market to achieve higher number of products
f) more workplaces
g) cheaper products
h) political objectives
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What are two examples of political objectives?
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a) joint force against the superpowers
b) stronger military power
15
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What are the three characteristics of an organized international integration?
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a) sovereign states or national economies
b) voluntary
c) complex, economic and political concentrations
16
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Why do we need to emphasize the voluntary nature of integration?
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Integration leads to the dissolution of a national economy, or to a certain extent, losing of identity
17
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What does FTA mean?
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Free Trade Area
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What are the eight stages of international integration?
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a) preferential trade area
b) free trade area
c) customs union
d) single market
e) economic union
f) economic and monetary union
g) complete economic integration
h) political union
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Give an example of a regional consultative organisations?
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APEC
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They are agreements between countries that promote trade and commerce.
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Bilateral Trade Agreement
21
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Merger, association, amalgamation, coalition, interconnectedness, interlocking
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Integration
22
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By the first half of the 90s, more than _______ of the foreign trade were conducted by international regional organisations
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2/3 or two-thirds
23
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The first steps of international integration are rooted in _______
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protectionism
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How long does it take to reach the goal of a functioning economic political integration?
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Decades
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What marks as the first steps and beginning of the integration process?
Expansion of trade between partners
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It is a short-term contract between two or more countries
Bilateral Trade Agreement
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It is relatively loose, consultative, programme and prognosis making. Sometimes, coordinate with organisations where participants prepare common projects, financing and implementing them in cooperation. It has no institutions.
Regional Consultative Organisations
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In this stage, the member states use tariffs and other trade police preferences to each other
Preferential Trading Area
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It is formed when at least two states partially or fully abolish custom tariffs on their inner border
Free Trade Area
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It introduces unified tariffs on the exterior borders of the union
Customs Union
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It is the free movement of services, capital and labor
Single Market
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It combines customs union with a common market
Economic Union
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It introduces a shared currency
Economic and Monetary Union
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It is the unification of economic policies, reduction in the rest of the trade barriers and introduction of supranational bodies.
Complete Economic Integration
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It is the final stage of international integration
Political Union
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CSME
CARICOM Single Market and Economy (Caribbean States)
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EAEU
Eurasian European Union
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It is the South American common market
MERCOSUR
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GCC
Gulf Cooperation Council
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It is the Central American cooperation system
SICA
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It is the economic community of Central African states
CEMA
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It is the West African economic and monetary union
UEMOA
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EEA
European Economic Area
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It is the Andean Community
CAN
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EAC
East African Commmunity
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EUCU
European Union Customs Union
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EACU
East Asian Customs Union
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SACU
Southern African Customs Union
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CEFTA
Central European Free Trade Agreement
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CISFTA
Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade
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COMESA
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
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DCFTA
Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area
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GAFTA
Grain and Feed Trade Association
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SAFTA
South Asian Free Trade Area
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AANZFTA
ASEAN-Australian New Zealand Free Trade Area
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CSME
CARICOM Single Market and Economy (Caribbean States)
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What are two key components that will help us understand Europe?
a) historical evolution prior to World War II
| b) recent integration process
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It is the South American common market
MERCOSUR
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GCC
Gulf Cooperation Council
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It is the Central American cooperation system
SICA
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It is the economic community of Central African states
CEMA
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It is the West African economic and monetary union
UEMOA
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EEA
European Economic Area
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What are important concepts that we understood during the Renaissance and Enlightenment period?
a) tolerance
b) freedom
c) respect of human rights
d) democracy
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EAC
East African Commmunity
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EUCU
European Union Customs Union
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EACU
East Asian Customs Union
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SACU
Southern African Customs Union
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CEFTA
Central European Free Trade Agreement
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CISFTA
Commonwealth of Independent States Free Trade
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COMESA
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
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DCFTA
Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area
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"Europe thus divided into nationalities, freely formed and free internally, peace between states would have been easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility"
Napoleon Bonaparte
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SAFTA
South Asian Free Trade Area
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AANZFTA
ASEAN-Australian New Zealand Free Trade Area
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PAFTA
Peru-Australia Free Trade Area
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True or False
| The European Integration is an isolated process
False. It is one of the misconceptions that the integration process started after WWII
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Where did the first effort come from in the European integration process before WWII?
It was from the Roman Empire
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They constituted the first great effort to integrate an important section of our continent and the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
Roman Empire
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The ______ brought the idea of unification under the common banner of Christendom.
Middle Ages
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What two ideologies arose during the middle ages?
a) Eurocentrism (European culture as preeminent)
| b) Superiority of European Civilisation
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What is the importance of Renaissance and Enlightenment in the foundation of the European integration process?
Without Renaissance and Enlightenment, we cannot understand the ideas of tolerance, freedom, respect of human rights and democracy
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What are important concepts that we understood during the Renaissance and Enlightenment period?
a) tolerance
b) freedom
c) respect of human rights
d) democracy
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Who are the five historical personalities pursuing the idea of Europe?
a) Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
b) Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
c) Napoleon Bonaparte
d) Metternich
e) Hitler
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He united majority of western and central Europe
Charles the Great or Charlemagne
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He is considered to be the father of Europe
Charles the Great or Charlemagne
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Where did the first Pan-European Congress happened?
Vienna
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His reign encompassed both the long-lasting Spanish and short-lived German colonisations of the Americas
Charles V
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Who are the five historical personalities pursuing the idea of Europe?
a) Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
b) Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
c) Napoleon Bonaparte
d) Metternich
e) Hitler
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He united majority of western and central Europe
Charles the Great or Charlemagne
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He is considered to be the father of Europe
Charles the Great or Charlemagne
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"The empire on which the sun never sets"
Charles V
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He published The United States of Europe in 1931
Eduoard Herriot
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The personal union of European and American territories of Charles V was the first collection of realms labelled as __________
"The empire on which the sun never sets."
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What is in the European Question?
The mutual hate of the Europeans that poisons the atmosphere
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It was an embargo of British goods in the interests of the French hegemony.
Napoleon's Continental System
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"Europe thus divided into nationalities, freely formed and free internally, peace between states would have been easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility"
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Where did Napoleon had this conversation "Europe thus divided into nationalities, freely formed and free internally, peace between states would have been easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility"?
St. Helena
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When was the French Empire greatest extent?
1812
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When did the collapse of Napoleon's empire happened?
1815
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What sort of bond should exist between the nations geographically gathered as Europe?
Federal Bond
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What were the three important impact of the second world war on the history of cooperation?
a) European's awareness of their own weakness which put a definitive end to the traditional hegemony in the world
b) Necessity to avoid coming back to confrontation among European states
c) many Europeans wanted to create a freer, fairer and more prosperous continent
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He is the leader of the Nazi party?
Hitler
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Who are the four intellectuals and philosophers in the European Integration Process before WWII?
a) Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
b) Jean Jacques Rousseau
c) Immanuel Kant
d) Karl Marx
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How did the two world wars begin?
European civil wars
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The Social Contract
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
Immanuel Kant
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
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He founded the Pan-European Movement
Count Coudenhove Kalergi
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When did Count Coudenhove founded the Pan-European Movement?
1923
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Where did the first Pan-European Congress happened?
Vienna
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What was reinforced in the European Defence Community?
It implies a strong military and political integration
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He served eleven terms as the Prime Minister of France
Aristide Briand
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What organisation asked Briand to present a memorandum with a detailed project?
League of Nations
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When did Briand submitted the memorandum?
1930
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What was the effect of the economic depression during Briand's time?
It begun to sweep away the ideas of solidarity and cooperation in international relations
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What was signed during the Concord years?
Locarno Treaty and the Pact Briand Kellog
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Who are the two important people in the Schuman Declaration to the Treaty of Rome?
Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman
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What was the biggest obstacle to the accomplishment of the United States of Europe?
The one-thousand-year-old rivalry between two most populated nations of pan-Europe, Germany and France
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What was the effect of the rise of Adolf Hitler to the post of German chancellery in 1933?
a) the definitive end of the European harmony
| b) rebirth of the monster of nationalism in its worst form
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Whose opinions were consulted in the United States of Europe by Eduoard Herriot?
a) countries of the continent
| b) Great Britain
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Where does the association mainly take place according to the speech of Briand on Geneva (Sept 5, 1929)?
In the economic domain
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What sort of bond should exist between the nations geographically gathered as Europe?
Federal Bond
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EURATOM
European Atomic Energy Community
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What countries were the new two superpowers?
United States and Soviet Union
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Because of the European integration, ___ was guaranteed
Peace
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How did the two world wars began?
European civil wars
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What was the official name of the Marshall Plan?
European Recovery Program
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What are the two objects of the Marshall Plan?
a) to foster economic development in a destroyed Europe
| b) to impede the extension of communism
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What is Benelux?
It is the customs union of Belgium, the Netherlands
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In what year was NATO founded?
1949
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What was the goal of the Council of Europe?
To incite political cooperation among European countries
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When was Western European Union founded?
1954
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What was reinforced in the European Defence Community?
It implies a strong military and political integration
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What was the proposal of the French government to be taken immediately to eliminate the age-old opposition of France and Germany?
Franco-German production of coal and steel be placed under a common High Authority within the framework of an organisation open to the participation of the other countries of Europe.
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What was the preamble of the treaty that allowed the establishment of the EEC?
Determine to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the people of Europe
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What was formed in the Treaty of Rome?
The Treaty of Rome brought about the creation of the European Economic Community
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What were the countries brought together by the Treaty of Rome?
Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg
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What was established in the Treaty of Paris?
European Coal and Steel Community
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What is the goal of the Community Agricultual Policy?
a) guarantee sufficient resources to European farmers
| b) avoid competition from third countries' products by guaranteeing agricultural prices
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True or False
| Economic Integration was the only practical way to achieve political union
True
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What does the failure of the European Defence Community tell us?
The political and military union was still a utopian objective
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Who presided over the conference in Messina (Italy) in 1955?
Paul Henri Spaak
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When was the exact date of the European construction?
March 25, 1957
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What was the result of the conference in Messina (Italy)?
a) signed the Treaties of Rome
b) established the European Economic Community
c) established the European Atomic Energy Community
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EURATOM
European Atomic Energy Community
147
Who signed in behalf of France in the Treaty of Rome?
Christian Pineau
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Who signed for Netherlands in the Treaty of Rome?
Joseph Luns
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Who signed for Belgium in the Treaty of Rome?
Paul Henri Spaak
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Who signed for Luxembourg in the Treaty of Rome?
Joseph Bach
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Who signed for Italy in the Treaty of Rome?
Antonio Segni
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Who signed for Germany in the Treaty of Rome?
Konrad Adenauer
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When did the full implementation of the Treaty of Rome took place?
Januray 1, 1958
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Who ratified the treaties signed during the conference in Messini?
The National Parliament
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EAGGF
European Agricultual Guidance and Guarantee Fund
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Is EEC a customs union?
Yes
157
It is known as the Common Market
European Economic Community
158
CAP
Common Agricultural Policy
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What was the goal of the common market?
a) abrogate the tariffs among EEC states
b) establishment of a common tariff from all products coming from third countries
c) free circulation of goods
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It is a free market of agricultural products inside the protectionist policies
Community Agricultural Policy
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What is the goal of the Community Agricultual Policy?
a) guarantee sufficient resources to European farmers
| b) avoid competition from third countries' products by guaranteeing agricultural prices
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When was the Single European Act?
1987
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This was a definitive boost to establish a genuine unified market
Single European Act
164
When was the European Union Treaty
1992
165
What was established in order to finance the the Common Agircultural Policy?
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
166
When was EAGGF established?
1962
167
It meant the free circulation of goods
Common Market
168
What are the other three policies included in the Treaty of Rome?
a) prohibition of monopolies
b) transport common policies
c) grant of some commercial privileges to colonial member states
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A realistic and gradual approach to building the European union was personified by __________
Jean Monnet
170
How was the new strategy by Jean Monnet different from the method of the EDC?
The new strategy adopts a process of integration that gradually incorporated diverse economic sectors that established supranational institutions with increasing political competences.
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It was later known as European Parliament
European Assembly
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EEC from its birth was based on a series of institutions namely : _______, __________, __________, __________
a) European Commission
b) European Assembly (European Parliament)
c) Court of Justice
d) Economic and Social Committee
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True or False
The process put in motion in which a progressive economic integration paved the way for a political union in the long run
True
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1951
European Coal and Steel Community
175
1957
Treaty of Rome
European Economic Community
European Atomic Energy Community
176
1965
Merger Treaty (merges the administrative and legislative bodies of the 3 European communities
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1986
Single European Act
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1992
Treaty of Maastricht
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1997
Treaty of Amsterdam
180
2001
Treaty of Nice
181
2007
Treaty of Lisbon
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What was created under Brussels Treaty?
Western Union Defence Organisation
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What was created under Paris Treaty?
European Coal and Steel Community
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What treaty changed WUDO to WEU?
Modified Brussels Treaty
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What are the three pillars of European Union?
European Community (Supranational)
Common Foreign and Security Policy (Intergovernmental)
Justice and Home Affairs (Intergovernmental)
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TREVI
Terrorism, Radicalism, Extremism and Violence Internationally
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What was created under the Single European Act?
European Political Cooperation
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What year was the Schengen Treaty created?
1985
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What was created under the Maastricht Treaty?
Justice and Home Affairs (JHA)
| Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
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When was the Modified Brussels Treaty implemented?
1955
