POLS 3435 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: European Parliament, Single European Act
17 Sep 2016
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Representatives of the 12 members of the european community signed the single. First major revision of the treaties of rome. Brought together in one single act a treaty on european cooperation in the area of foreign policy and institutional and procedural reforms. Designed to facilitate the completion of the single market. Preamble shows that the new vision is an evolving european union ready to act in the word as a single entity to protect the common interests of its members. Sea success in facilitating the single market opened the way for further institutional reforms in the early 1990s. Preamble assumed states were a single unit rather than individual sovereign states. Wants to implement the eu on the basis of communities operating in accordance with their own rules. Cooperation among the signatory states in foreign policy. The european idea must coincide with the wants and needs of the european people. European parliament is elected by universal suffrage.
