DANC 010AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: European Atomic Energy Community, Single Market, Schuman Declaration
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For dummies like me: after ww2: the desire for lasting peace in europe, a lot of initiatives are taken for international cooperation. Imf (international agreements on european economic treaty of. In 1950 the schuman plan was fulfilled: french and german coal and steel industries were put under the control of a supranational body. 1952: the european coal and steel community (ecsc: 6 member states, 4 institutions. Court of justice: first supranational element: high authority. Sub-objectives: custom union, four freedoms, competition policy against private market barriers/cartels, close regulation for state intervention, regulation of ms" fiscal regimes, more stability, higher standard of living, closer relations. After all of this bullshit there were tensions between intergovernmental and supranational views leading to the luxembourg crisis! 1965: luxembourg crisis: france decides to be extra and refuse to take part in further eec business. The ecc did an agreement to disagree over the voting methods. It returned to intergovernmentalism: legislative process chilled very long.