Let’s see how my revisionism class goes today
countries decided to place authority in a supranational entity
Korean War and Cold War are a background to the US proposing that Germany be re-armed.
People didn’t like that. Germans did start 2 world wars in half a century.
This led to the creation of the European Defense Community
But you also needed a body that would be able to decide when to initiate war/peace.
The French decided to postpone ratification of the EDC indefinitely.
The European Social Fund is a thing.
The essence of the EEC is the internal market, but a number of policy domains creep in / are decided upon by the countries that agreed on the deal.
Now we’re at the EFTA. The UK took a leadership role in establishing an alternative organization that does not require a transfer of competence to a supranational level.
Empty chair crisis. The french stopped coming to the EU. They didn’t like agricultural policy and the way votes were supposed to be taken.
Luxembourg compromise. If a country’s vital interest is at stake, they will not be humiliated or pressured, continuing to talk until they find a compromise instead. ← this is basically veto power.
The Hague summit is trying to reconcile the supranational and the intergovernmental
1957 Treaty of Rome.
The three points left up to the nations following the Single European Act was that the free movement of people, taxation, and social security.
Treaty of Maastricht
2 intergovernmental conferences: 1 on internal market functioning of the EEC.
The treaty of maastricht was done to hopefully establish a monetary union on top of the EEC.
The other is on foreign and security policy: …
The economic and monetary union comes in and this is really important. It was nominally the European Community still, but monetary policy will be determined by an independent, European central bank.