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9 May 1950: Europe is born
In 1950, in a speech inspired by Jean Monnet, the French foreign minister Robert Schuman proposed integrating the coal and steel industries of western Europe. -
The European Coal and Steel Community was created
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). -
European Economic Community
On March 25, 1957, the Treaty of Rome were signed, considered as the birth certificate of the great European family. The first establishes a European Economic Community (EEC), instead a European Atomic Energy Community, better known as Euratom. -
THE MEMBER BECAME 9
The six founding countries officially become nine with the accession of Danemark, Ireland and the United Kingdom to the EU -
SINGLE EUROPEAN ACT
It was signed in Luxembourg on 17 February 1986 and entered into force on 1 July 1987. It was designed to meet two urgent needs: to complete the construction of the free internal market, now at the stake after the economic crises of the seventies and start a first embryo of political union -
Berlin Wall is pulled down
There is major political upheaval when, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall is pulled down and the border between East and West Germany is opened for the first time in 28 years, this leads to the reunification of Germany when both East and West Germany are united in October 1990. -
THE TREATY OF MAASTICHT
signed on 7 February 1992 in Maastricht, the Netherlands, the Treaty of Maastricht, or the Treaty on European Union (TEU) by the twelve Member States of the then European Community, now the European Union, and which entered into force on 1 November 1993, defining the so-called three pillars of the European Union, also establishing the political rules and economic and social parameters necessary for the entry of the various acceding States into the said Unio -
EURO
In 2002 was introduced the EURO and was born the EUROZONE -
2004 one of the year to remember
Most of the easter european country where ones under the control of the Soviet Union decided to be able to join the European Union.
In fect 2004 is a one of the year to remember because in that year ten more eu countries join the union and most of this countries where from the easter europe -
TREATY OF LISBON
gave rise to article 50 -
NOBEL PEACE PRICE
the european union was awarded the nobel peace price -
now a days 2020
The United Kingdom leaves the European Union after 47 years of EU membership, marking a new chapter in the Union’s history. The entry into force of the Withdrawal Agreement marks the start of a transition period until at least 31 December 2020, during which the UK remains a member of the Single Market and the Customs Union. EU law will continue to apply in the United Kingdom until the end of the transition period, however, as a non-EU country.