Task 5 Flashcards
(7 cards)
From the WW” to the Rome treaty
- After the WW”, what brought Europe together was political security due to: peaceful course rather than destroying itself again and rise of superpowers
= project of imperial decline due to loss of colonies was common ground to work together
= awareness that European countries independently were way less strong than the emerging superpowers
- European council 1943 -body set to protect democratic principles of legal norm –> facilitate various areas between European states
- Germany and France integration was way more than just values of economic and political integration - enhancing prosperity and security for reconstruction
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An even wider Europe and the conundrums of success
- the end of the Cold War brought possibilities for widening and deepening of European integration due to fall of Berlin wall and fall of the USSR
- Maastricht treaty - establishment of the EU and European central bank
- treaty of nice: fixed the relative voting powers of individual countries in the council of European Union
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Why did countries want to join the EU and why did wealthier countries accept poorer?
- EU membership provided access to a large, wealthy market and assurance against future interventions into their affairs form abroad
-Economic and security components – EU provided financial aid to those countries in order to assure stability - New countries gave boost to the EU in terms of annual growth rate and acmes to new markets
The eurozone crisis 2009
- the problems of European integration became painfully evident as the first decade of the 21st century drew to a close
- Global banking crisis - slow economic growth
Main cause: a number of eurozone governments had failed to limit their debt and spending to the levels agreed in Maastricht in 1992
Political effects of the crisis: growth of nationalism and europeanism
How to explain the emergence of the ECC and the EU
- By emphasizing the role of member states
= the decades of european integrations did not change the idea of state - realists or Neo realists. –> states keep pursuing their national interests but in changed context
- By stressing the impact of supra-national institutions
= a gradual spillover process functionalism or Neo functionalism - more and more sectors got integrated to take advantage of the expertise of the EU
= inability of individual governments to deal with a growing number of transnational issues without close cooperation
why did attempts of long-term peace fail after WW1
- rise of nationalism
-main focus on peace treaties keeping Germany at bay instead of fostering cooperation
what changed after WW2
- changue of power structures and economies
= decolonization meant that they needed a new market to sell the. goods
2. Collapse of nation state
3. New legitimacy of the government throughout the welfare state - welfare state was easier to justify in times of economic growth
- Economic stability = Political stability - increased dependence of superpower
=solution: Europe as the third power
