PSC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Single Market, Banking Union, World Trade Organization
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Sub-state (local) (both sub-state) federal vs. unitary. Ex: food and drink industry ireland/food and drink europe. Rational choice- self-interest and the local central bargaining. Member states: 27 (2013) [austria, belgium, bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, czech. Republic, denmark, estonia, finland, france, germany, greece, hungary, Ireland, italy, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, malta, the netherlands, poland, Portugal, romania, slovakia, slovenia, spain, sweden {no longer the uk}] Candidate countries: albania, montenegro, serbia, the former yugoslav republic of macedonia, turkey. This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with unscr 1244/99 and the icj opinion on the kosovo declaration of independence. Council of the european union (council of ministers) Wto: speaks on behalf of all member states. Treaty of rome (1957)- european economic community (eec) Enlargement #1: denmark, ireland, and the uk (1973) First direct elections of european parliamentarians (1979) Gives in-between shape (part intergovernmental, part supranational) (elvert 2008) Enlargement #4: austria, finland, and sweden (1995)