EU Quiz 1
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26 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 President of European Council | Herman Van Rompuy - first of position |
| President of the Commission | Jose Manuel Barrosso |
| EU Minister of Foreign Affairs | Catherine Ashton (1st) |
| Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the EU | Poland |
| Original 6 | France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands |
| First (1973) | UK, Denmark, Ireland |
| Second (1981) | Greece, Spain, Portugal |
| Third (1995) | Austria, Finland, Sweden |
| Fourth (2004) | Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia |
| Fourth (2007) | Bulgaria, Romania |
| Enlargement (Copenhagen Criteria) | Democracy, Market Economy, Adhering to EU regulations |
| Candidate Countries | Coratia, Macedonia, Turkey, Iceland |
| Potential Countries | Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo |
| Exit Clause | Withdrawal; Lisbon Treaty |
| Eurozone | increase trade, increase investment, important symbol |
| Schengen Agreemt | 25 Countries; no border control; EU and non-EU |
| EFTA (1960) | Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Lichtenstein |
| EEA | 1994; participate in European single market without joining EU; free trade |
| First Pillar | Supranational; European Community |
| Second Pillar | Common Foreign Security Policy; intergovernmental |
| Third Pillar | Police and Judicial Cooperation and Criminal Matters; pushed by schengen; opt outs |
| FTA | Free Trade Area; reduction of trade barriers among member states; free access to each other's market; keep own external tariffs against non-members; ex. NAFTA |
| CU | Customs Union; FTA + common external tarriff against the goods of non-members; one tariff; ex. EU-Turkey |
| Single Common Market | CU + freedom of movement for all factors of production; no barriers to trade; ex. Schengen |
| EMU | Economic Monetary Union; SM + unification of fiscal and monetary policies of the member states; common currency; Euro |
| Political Union | EMU+ political union; no example yet |
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