introduction

Question 1

When did the EU start to form?

Answer 1

1950s

Question 2

When did Ireland join the EU?

Answer 2

1973

Question 3

What significant event occurred in 2020 regarding the EU?

Answer 3

The UK left the EU

Question 4

What caused the formation of EU

Answer 4

Devastation following WW1 and WW2, aimed to stop countries fighting

Question 5

What was the main political objective of the European integration efforts post-WW2?

Answer 5

Concerned with world peace

Question 6

What was established in 1949 as part of efforts to prevent war in Europe?

Answer 6

NATO

Question 7

Timeline of Events

Answer 7

1951- Coal and Steel Community
1954- EEC
1957- EEC treaty
Common Agricultural policy
1987- SEA
1993-Maastricht treaty
1998-Amsterdam Treaty
2003- Nice Treaty
2004– Failed formation of a con
2007- Treaty of Lisbon

Question 8

What was the aim of the Coal and Steel Community formed in 1951?

Answer 8

To integrate the industries so that countries were mutually dependent and wouldnt go to war w eachother

Question 9

What year was the European Economic Community (EEC) established?

Answer 9

1954

Question 10

What did the EEC aim to achieve?

Answer 10

Bringing together the whole economies of the countries

Question 11

What is another name for Community law?

Answer 11

EEC law

Question 12

What was the objective of the 1957 EEC Treaty?

Answer 12

Concerned free trade
Common Market:Abolition of tariffs between the community-allowed for free movement of goods/services/workers etc.
Customs union: Some customs tariff for countries from outside the community

Question 13

Aim of Common Agricultural Policy

Answer 13

Aimed to improve conditions after food shortages due to war
Guranteed stable prices to farmers

Question 14

What was the aim of the 1987 Single European Act?

Answer 14

Deepen economic integration
Not just a common market, an internal market

Question 15

What significant change did the Single European Act introduce regarding decision-making?

Answer 15

Reduced national veto powers- needed majority vote of member states

Question 16

Maastricht treaty

Answer 16

All countries had separate cuttencies so this was a barrier for trade becaus of the exchange rates.
Created single currency- the Euro

Question 17

How many member states currently use the Euro?

Answer 17

20

Question 18

What was a major concern regarding foreign and security policy after Maastricht?

Answer 18

Apprehension about giving jurisdiction to a European court

Question 19

What concept emerged as a shift from community to union?

Answer 19

Union citizenship

Question 20

What were the challenges faced by the EU after the Maastricht Treaty?

Answer 20

Deepening issues like climate change and widening of the EU- how to expand it to allow for new member state
The amendments to treaty were not satisfactory so it gave rise to consitutional reform

Question 21

What were the names of the two treaties that focused on constitutional reform?
What happened

Answer 21

1998 Treaty of Amsterdam and 2003 Treaty of Nice

Conference on furute of europe- how to expand and develop EU
Contemplating creation of constiution

Question 22

2004

Answer 22

some states didnt approve so con was set aside

Question 23

What significant change did the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 introduce?

Answer 23

Repealed all previous treaties
Created 2 treaties in whcih underpin the union
TEu and TFEU

Question 24

What are the two new treaties enacted by the Treaty of Lisbon?

Answer 24

Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)

Question 25

TEU

Answer 25

underpins the values and principles of the EU exit and entry principles Structure of instiutions

Question 26

TFEU

Answer 26

Sets out the powers of the EU

Question 27

State case that talks about the treaties

Answer 27

Wightman v Secretar of state EU The treaties consitute the basic constituional charter of the Eu