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THE EUROPEAN UNION Aurélien Mazuy Pascaline Winand Caitlin Gheller Alfonso Martínez Arranz Unless otherwise specified, all images and icons in this presentation are publicly available from commons.wikimedia.org under the names specified in the respective captions or by looking up the relevant topic (e.g. flags, maps) Outreach presentation by the
Contents • Intro • What is the European Union • Why the European Union • Historical steps • Latest developments • European institutions • What does the EU do? • EU – Australia • Other topics of European integration
Cześć! Who I am ¡Hola! • Pascaline Winand • My identities: • Belgian • European: • Father from Walloon and Flemish parts of Belgium • Mother from France and Austria • International: • Studied and taught in Belgium, France, the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Peru, Italy and now in Australia Hey! Salut !
Belgium: a mini-Europe Languages (and regions) of Belgium • Yellow (Flanders): Dutch • Red (Wallonia): French • Orange (Brussels): French – Dutch • Blue (Wallonia): German The monumental main square in Brussels
One of a kind… • Not a State: in-between a state and an international organisation • Not Europe: Norway, Switzerland etc. are not members of the EU • Has 28 member states with the accession of Croatia in 2013
Population As of 1 January 2013. Data source: Eurostat
Membership • How can a country become a member of the European Union? • Be a “European country” • Respect human rights, democracy and other “European values” since 1993 laid down in The Copenhagen Criteria • Examples: • Morocco’s application rejected in 1987 as “not European” without further consideration • Turkey has been left waiting since 1986 but negotiations have slowly progressed
Many member states and… • EU institutions (Commission, Council, Court of Justice…) • Many policies: agriculture, environment, competition, immigration… • Many players: private interest groups, citizen groups, non EU governmental actors, journalists…
But what do people speak? • Working languages: English, French and German • Official languages: the languages of the member states (i.e 24 languages) • Citizens can ask for any document in their own language
Europe Day 9 May • A day to remember: Schuman declaration On 9 May 1950 French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman called for a supranational organisation to unite European countries
Uniting Europe: a long tradition But rarely peaceful! • Roman Empire : 27 BCE to 476 CE • Carolingian Empire: 7th century • Christendom during the Middle Ages • Habsburg Empire: 17th century • Napoleon Empire : 19th century • Axis Conquests in WWII
War Trauma • European institutions created in the aftermath of WWI (1914-1918) & WWII (1939-1945), which were fought disproportionately in Europe • Millions of Britons, French, Germans, Italians and others died, making up over 3% of their total populations (cf. 1.38% of Australian pop. who perished in WWI) Ruins of Warsaw, 1945 German dead at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
The case for the modern Union • Now that fear of war is increasingly a distant memory… • “A strong Europe in a globalised world” • Possible to compete with other economic giants (USA / Japan / China…) • Coordinating foreign policies to recover lost influence • More coherent to tackle terrorism and organized crime • Defend certain values: rule of law, human rights, peace
Early European Communities • In 1951, six European countries established a European Coal and Steel Community
Early European Communities • In 1957, the same founding members sign the Treaties of Rome creating • the European Economic Community • European Atomic Energy Community • Treaties of Rome still in use today (heavily amended): formal predecessors of the modern-day EU
1980s: the single market • Despite some progress, after decades of integration many impediments remained to free trade within the European Community • During the 1980s, President of the European Commission Jacques Delors devised a plan to have a Single Market by 1992 to further harmonise regulation, and improve free movement of goods and capital • Leads to the Single European Act (signed in 1986)
Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 • Some are reticent to let Germany reunite • Germany agrees to deeper European integration, including a common currency • Unification of Germany in October 1990 (‘silent’ EU enlargement)
European Union created • November 1993: The Treaty of Maastricht establishes the European Union • Foreign policy, common currency, justice system and other key sovereignty markers are tackled by the integration process for the first time CE | |
The road to the euro • 1992 Maastricht Treaty establishes provisions for common currency • 1994 European Central Bank established • 1995 Name “euro” chosen • 1997 Stability Pact signed • 1999 Euro valid as e.g. for cheques, etc. • 2002: Euro notes and coins introduced
Can you find these new members on the map? Cyprus The Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia CE | | P-012620/00-04 | 07/02/2007 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Europe_blank_map.png/1000px-Europe_blank_map.png
CE | | P-012620/00-04 | 07/02/2007 Eastern enlargement 2004 Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Estonia Latvia Czech Republic Hungary Cyprus
