文档介绍：The European Union
I. HISTORY
A. ECSC and EEC
B. Stagnation and Stagflation
C. SEA, Maastricht and the Single Currency
D. Enlargement and a Failed Constitution
II. INSTITUTIONS
A. Council, Commission and Parliament
III. ISSUES
A. Enlargement
B. Single Currency
C. Institutional Reform
IV. A EUROPEAN SUPER-STATE?
Regionalism in IPE
Free Trade Area: the elimination of tariffs
for goods and services within region
(NAFTA)
Customs Union: an FTA with mon
external tariff (EEC)
Single Market/Economic Union:
eliminating all tariff and non-tariff barriers
Freedom of goods, services, labor and capital
“Harmonization” of regulation
May also mon currency (euro)
The Logic of Regionalism
I. History of the EU
Problems of Postwar Europe
Marshall Plan and OEEC
Jean and Schuman Plan
European Coal and munity
(ECSC)
Supranationalism: transfering sovereign power
and policymaking responsibilities to an IGO
whose decisions are BINDING on members
Britain Out – formed EFTA instead
Treaty of Rome (1957) –
European Economic
Community (EEC)
Jean –
“Father of Europe”
I. History of the EU
Stagnation in the 1960s (de Gaulle)
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP -- 1962)
Economic Crisis in the 1970s
Stagflation and ‘Eurosclerosis’
Jacques Delors and the SEA (1986)
Qualified Majority Voting (QM