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level: Lecture + Chapter 5: Building the Community to Union?

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level questions: Lecture + Chapter 5: Building the Community to Union?

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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.