POLI 66 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Policy, North American Free Trade Agreement, Schuman Declaration
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National: legal systems, armies, taxation, parliaments, welfare, health, education systems. Inside the countries: legitimate authority, the rule of law, democracy, liberty, equality. Outside countries: no legitimate authority, no effective legal or normative order, anarchy, power politics, war. Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan it will be built through concrete achievements. French government takes over production of coal and steel and placed under a common high authority as a first step in the federation of europe. The ecsc started in 1952 very supranational. But it was a gradual plan: step by step problem solving, active european elite, large ambitions. European economic community: key policies include customs union, external trade policy, competition policy. Customs union: no tariffs within the members of the customs union, and the same trade rules for all the countries outside.
