What were the events leading up to the slowdown of European Integration in 1965? | There was 2 major crisis which were that France vetoes British application to join the EEC and the empty chair crisis. |
What is the Empty Chair Crisis of 1965? | A dispute in 1965 over the powers of EEC institutions and the governments of its ms, which encourage France to boycott meetings of the CoM |
What resolved the Empty Chair Crisis of 1965? | The Luxembourg Compromise. |
What is the Luxembourg Compromise? | An agreement in 1966 ended the empty chair crisis and preserved national veto and reinforced the power of member states at the cost of powers of EEC institutions. |
What was the effect of the Luxembourg Compromise on European Integration? | It made consensus the informal norm in the CoM decisions and therefore, impeded effective decision-making for a long time. |
The process of expanding memberships of the European Community is called Enlargement. While it had many potential benefits, what was the politial cost of it? | France and germany worried about their dominating role in European decision-making and with greater variety of interests, more political disagreements had to be addressed. |
What is the Economic and Monterary Union (EMU) ? | A program by the EEC to coordinate economic policy in preparation for the switch to a single currency. |
What is the European Monetary System (EMS) ? | An arrangement in 1979 by which the EEC member states linked their currencies to one another through an exchange rate mechanism. |
What is the Single European Act (SEA) of 1986? | The first major change to the treaties with the goal of reviving plans to complete the Single European Market. |
What is the Schengen Agreement? | An agreement to set up a border free Europe signed in 1985 among 5 member states. |
What is Eurosclerosis? | A term coined in 1985 to describe the inflexibility of the Western European labour market and its failure to create enough to meet demand. |
What was the Key Goal of the single European Act? | To remove the remaining physical, technical and fiscal barriers to the single market by the end of 1992. |