POLI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Honor Killing, Democratic Deficit, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four
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France, germany, italy, belgium, netherlands, & luxembourg. Essential to unify france and germany because they were constantly involved in wars wanted to prevent that. Combine energy and weapon industries across europe with goal to harmonize production and set prices. Mindset: dependent on each other"s steel and coal assets, less likely to go to war. High court that has authority over supranational. Necessary because countries don"t always follow the laws unity, coherence. Original 6 + denmark, ireland, uk (1973), greece (1981), portugal & spain (1986) Allows for the free movement of goods, information, people, money limits borders. Iceland, norway, liechtenstein joined schengen, but not eu. Norway and switzerland haven"t joined benefit economically, but not bound by eu rules. Common belief in western europe is that they don"t like the eu. Left wing parties: skeptical about economically liberal policies of the eu. Right wing parties: skeptical about losing their national culture/identity. Prosperity: big push for unification for prosperity for businesses, tourism.
