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Over part a century previous and carrying on with to develop in power and authority, the eu Union contains 25 member states—with extra at the ready list—and a inhabitants of 450 million humans. Its effect in international and family affairs and human rights and legislations reaches a ways past its prior fields of exchange and politics. From the preliminary principles approximately integration resulting in the Treaty of Paris and the production of the ecu Coal and metal neighborhood to the present mirrored image at the Treaty constructing a structure for Europe, the Historical Dictionary of the ecu Union encompasses the main simple components of the ecu and the elements that experience emerged due to them.

Through using maps, photos, a listing of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 1000s of cross-referenced dictionary entries on themes resembling leaders, personalities, associations, enlargements, member states, inner regulations, exterior kin, uncomplicated theories, treaties, and legislations, this dictionary tells a transparent and entire tale in regards to the eu Union that might help people with better curiosity in realizing it.

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The May 2004 enlargement, incorporating into the EU several Central and Eastern European countries with large agricultural sectors in need of modernization, made the CAP subsidies unsustainable. Proposed reforms for 2000–2006, part of Agenda 2000, include a greater emphasis on the stabilization of agriculture expenditure, rural development, environmental protection, and food safety regulations. There is continuous controversy between the EU and third world countries over the EU’s intervention in its agricultural markets.

1 July: The Empty Chair Crisis begins with the French government’s recall of its representatives to the EC institutions. 1966 28–29 January: Agreement is reached on the Luxembourg Compromise, resolving the Empty Chair Crisis. 7 March: Alain Pohler is elected president of the EP. 1967 11 May: The UK submits its second application for membership in the European Community (EC). 1 July: The Merger Treaty, combining the Commissions of the EEC and EURATOM with the ECSC’s High Authority enters into force.

10 May: A referendum is held in Ireland and the people vote in favor of Irish EC membership. 24–25 September: A public referendum is held in which the Norwegian people vote against EC membership. 2 October: Denmark holds a referendum in which the majority vote in favor of Danish EC membership. 1973 1 January: Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom become EC member states. 6 January: François Xavier Ortoli assumes the office of the presidency of the European Commission. 13 March: Cornelis Berkhouwer is elected president of the EP.

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