LL201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Time (Magazine), European Debt Crisis, Syntagma Square
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History of europe version 1: an endless string of wars. History of europe version 2: between the middle of the 14th century and the middle of the. 20th century, the european powers took turns dominating world politics and economics. After wwii the us and the ussr became the world"s two super powers. Europe therefore found itself in a marginal position relative to its traditional place on the world stage. European heads of state sought to re-establish their place of the international stage. The maastricht treaty (1992: creation of the european union (eu, 12 member states, currently 28 member states. Eu explained (link: schengen area: 26 of the 28 eu countries have abolished border controls at their common borders, 19 of the 28 eu countries have adopted a common currency, the euro. European debt crisis is far from resolved. European migrant/refugee crisis: german chancellor angela merkel is named 2015 person of the year by time magazine.