... EU has also introduced a single currency. It endeavours to ensure that, through social progress and fair competition, as many people as possible enjoy the benefits of this single market. The ground rules of the European Union are set out in a series of treaties: • the Treaty of Paris, which set up the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951; &bull ... to act - on the international stage. A worldwide economic recession in the early 1980s brought with it a wave of euro-pessimism'. But hope sprang anew in 1985 when the European Commission, under its President Jacques Delors, pub...

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... the government, putting more money into the government. People's lives were controlled because the government believed that the state was more important than the individuals in it. Each country was under the impression that their way was the best way, and both were quite suspicious of each other. "America was worried that Russia was trying to spread communism throughout Europe and ... . "When he came to power he discovered that the Soviet Union was spending 50% more each year on weapons than the United States. Reagan was determined to make up lost ground and challenge the USSR with a mas...

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