Summary Timeline EU Treaties and Corresponding Institutions
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Course
EU foundations
Institution
Maastricht University (UM)
Simplified timeline that features all the important EU Treaties and the corresponding changes they made to the European Union.
Written for the course of EU Foundations, information taken out of the book: European Union Law; Foundations.
Year: What: Explanation:
1951, April European Coal and Steel Community
(ECSC) for the management of coal and
steel (common market) within Europe, 6
countries: Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Italy, France, West
Germany.
Four principal institutions:
- High Authority: nine
independent appointees of the
Signing of the ECSC Treaty (Treaty MS, main executive institution
of Paris). with decision-making power.
- Assembly: national
parliaments’ delegates,
supervisory and advisory
powers.
- Council: representative from
each national government,
limited decision-making powers
and a broader consultative
role.
- Court of Justice: nine judges.
1952, May European Defence Community (EDC),
aim was to prevent the rise of another
German army and to act as a force in
the Korean War.
Produced plans for a federal,
parliamentary-style form of European
Signing of the EDC Treaty. integration with a bicameral parliament
with real legislative power.
Proposed institutions:
- Executive Council.
- Court of Justice.
- Economic and Social Council.
Plan failed when the French refused to
ratify the EDC in 1954.
1957, April Establishment of the European
Economic Community (EEC) and the
European Atomic Energy Community
(Euratom). EEC is a kind of predecessor
of the European Union.
Common market idea: removal of
barriers to trade and quotas plus the
setup of a common customs tariff.
Free movement of economic factors of
production in order to ensure that they
were being used most efficiently
Signing of the EEC Treaty and throughout the Community as a whole.
Euratom Treaty (Treaty of Rome). Treaty of Rome was designed to:
- Approximate the economic
policies of the MS.
- Promote harmonious
development of economic
activities throughout the
Community.
- Increase stability and raise the
standard of living.
- Promote closer relations
between the MS.
Establishment of:
- Common policies in agriculture
and transport.
- European Social fund to
improve employment
opportunities.
- Investment Bank to give loans
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