POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Euratom Treaty
Document Summary
Alliances are shifting to something above the state. Eu: make sure that europe doesn"t fight again. Not through federalism (shared sovereignty) but through everyday things (steel and coal company): regulate and unite war making (germans need to be in polite company and the french need the econ) Contradictions: couldn"t only do it because needs output thus made a union with the east econ. Company and euratom treaty (57) the members numbers have increased and has its own institutions (eu): Euro commission (euro bureaucracy), council (represented not elected but most powerful), parliament (elected), ad euro court of justice (all nations acts have to agree with the treaties they have signed as countries are like courts and treaties like constitutions) Eu gets rid of tariffs and thus common import prices and currency) which are discussed in brussels and thus this is above the state.
