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Short and comprised History of Europe! |
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Following the end of communism in Eastern Europe, member states determined to strengthen their ties and negotiated the new Treaty on European Union. |
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The Treaty of Maastricht the main features of which were agreed at the Maastricht European Council on 9-10 December 1991. |
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The Treaty of Maastricht, which entered into force on 1 November 1993, set an ambitious program: monetary union in 1999, new common policies,
European citizenship, a common foreign and security policy and internal security. |
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The Treaty of Maastricht introduced new forms of cooperation between the member states—for example on defence, and in the area of
"justice and home affairs". |
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Thus, the Treaty created the European Union (EU). |
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To ensure that the EU can continues functioning efficiently with 25 or more members, on 28 February 2002 the Union set up the European
Convention created to prepare a reform of its policies and institutions that could lead to the adoption of a new EU Constitution in 2004.
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Then, an Intergovernmental Conference of the member
states will be convened to adopt a Constitution. The Community is experimenting an extraordiary enlargement expandeding it area
east and northwards with the accession On 1 January 1995, three further countries joined the European Union. |
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Austria, Finland and Sweden expanded the Union to its current
size of fifteen and opened up further dimensions at the heart of central and northern Europe. Following lengthy negotiations, ten more countries—Estonia,
Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia which are about to formally join the EU in early 2004. |
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Bulgaria and Romania, while approved and continuing negotiations, are to join in early 2007. Another country,
Turkey, applied for membership but still awaits a decision by the EU to begin accession negotiations. Those enlargements made it by far more imperative to implement structural programmes designed to reduce the disparities between the than twenty seven
member states in terms of economic development. |
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