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Timeline of EU Integration

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction The EU today is based on a series of treaties, pacts and agreements between member states, which have steadily increased the areas (political and economic) in which nations states in the EU are integrated. This means that member states have agreed to allow many policy… [Read More]


Immigration and Asylum

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction Since 1990, the EU has expanded its role in managing asylum and immigration. A large number of people migrate to the EU in search of work or as asylum seekers. How member states and the EU should deal with these new arrivals creates fierce disagreement… [Read More]


EU Treaties

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction The EU is founded on a series of legal treaties between its member states. The first treaty, which established the European Economic Community (EEC), was signed in Rome in 1957. There have been five subsequent treaties – the Single European Act (1986), the Treaty of… [Read More]


Enlargement – Iceland

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction The Republic of Iceland is an island country in the North Atlantic. The country was ruled by Norwegian and Danish monarchies until it gained independence from Denmark after the Second World War. Iceland signed a free trade agreement with the European Economic Community (EEC) in… [Read More]


Norway and Switzerland

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction Norway and Switzerland are not part of the EU but are both members of EFTA (the European Free Trade Association), and Norway is a member of the EEA (European Economic Area). Norway is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe bordering Sweden, Finland and Russia, whereas… [Read More]


Slovenia (Slovenija)

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Recent History Slovenia was the first republic of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to break away, when it declared its independence in June 1991. While the rest of the federation collapsed into ethnic civil war, Slovenia escaped following only a very brief conflict. Slovenia was recognised… [Read More]


Slovakia

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Recent History Slovakia is a parliamentary republic. The Head of State is the President, currently Andrej Kiska, who was elected in 2014 having run against Prime Minister Robert Fico. Kiska had no previous political experience or any party affiliations – a fact that worked in his… [Read More]


Justice and Home Affairs Policy

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction EU Justice and Home Affairs policy (JHA) aims to fight criminal activity that crosses national borders through a combination of intergovernmental cooperation between member states and supranational institutions run by central EU bodies. It promotes the principle of mutual recognition of different legal codes within… [Read More]


European Single Market

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction The single market (sometimes called the internal market) describes the EU project to create free trade within the EU and to mould Europe into a single economy. It is one of the most wide-ranging and significant symbols of European integration, encompassing many of the policy… [Read More]


Treaty of Amsterdam

A PDF of this resource can be accessed here. Introduction The Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) was the third major amendment to the arrangements made under the Treaty of Rome (1957). It was largely an exercise in tying up the loose ends left over from the Maastricht Treaty (1992). However, in the ways in which it… [Read More]


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