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Chapter 7
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Acquis communautaires
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The body of laws and regulations new members of the EU must accept before gaining admission.
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Broadening
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Support for expanding EU membership.
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CAP
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Common Agricultural Policy of the EU.
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CFSP
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Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU.
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Commission, European
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The executive of the European Union.
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Committee of Permanent Representatives
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European Union civil servants who are sent by and work for the member states rather than the EU itself.
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Common Agricultural Policy
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The EU’s agricultural policy, blamed for many of its economic troubles and likely to be changed as it adds new members.
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Common Foreign and Security Policy
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EU goal of creating a single foreign policy for its fifteen member states; one of the three pillars.
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Common Market
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Colloquial name used to describe the European Union, especially in its early years.
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COREPER
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EU Council of Permanent Representatives.
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Council of Ministers
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A generic term used to describe the cabinet in many countries.
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Deepening
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Expansion of the EU’s powers.
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Delors, Jacques
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Prominent French Socialist politician, who was president of the European Commission, 1985–95.
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Democratic deficit
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The lack of democratic procedures in the EU.
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EAGGF
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European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund.
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EC
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European Community, now the EU.
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ECJ
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European Court of Justice.
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ECSC
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European Coal and Steel Community, precursor of the EU.
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EEC
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European Economic Community, first official title of today’s EU.
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EMS
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European Monetary System.
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EMU
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European Monetary Union, including the central bank and the euro.
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EP
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European Parliament.
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ERM
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European Rate Mechanism.
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EU
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European Union.
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Euratom
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European Atomic Energy Commission.
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Euro
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The new European currency, introduced in 1999.
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European Coal and Steel Community
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One of the precursors of the European Union, formed in 1951.
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European Communities
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The formal name of what became the EU in the 1970s and 1980s.
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European Court of Justice
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The EU’s judicial body, with sweeping powers.
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European Economic Community
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The precursor of the EU.
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European Monetary System
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The first attempt to link the EU member states’ currencies.
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European Monetary Union
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Created in 1998, includes a central bank and the euro.
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European Parliament
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The EU’s legislature.
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FDP
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Germany’s Free Democrat (or liberal) Party.
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Maastricht Treaty
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Created the EU and EMU; signed in 1992.
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Marshall Plan
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U.S. funds provided for reconstruction of Europe after World War II.
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Monnet, Jean
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Primary architect of the EU and the French planning system.
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OECD
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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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OEEC
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Organization for European Economic Cooperation.
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Prodi, Romano
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President of the European Commission since 2001.
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Qualified majority voting
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The EU voting system in which the Council of Ministers does not need to reach unanimity on most issues.
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SEA
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The Single European Act.
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Single European Act
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Act that created the truly common market in 1992.
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Spaak, Paul-Henri
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Belgian politician who was one of the leading architects of the early Common Market.
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Subsidiarity
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In the EU, policy that devolves decision making to the lowest appropriate level.
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Supranational
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Authority that transcends national borders.
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Three pillars
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Informal term denoting the main areas that the EU works in since the Maastricht Treaty.
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Treaty of Amsterdam
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Minor 1998 agreement that added some limited powers to the EU.
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Treaty of Rome
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Created the EEC in 1957.
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Unanimity principle
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Formerly required for all decisions in the EU, now only for major new policies.
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