THE EUROPEAN UNION - BRIEF HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS For centuries, Europe was the scene of frequent and bloody wars. In the period 1870 to 1945, France and Germany fought each other three times, with terrible loss of life. A number of European leaders became convinced that the only way to secu...
The Republic of Bulgaria A key factor in how Eastern Europe agrees with one another lies in the hands of Bulgaria. This country is centrally located between the countries of Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, and Romania. The Black Sea is on the eastern side of the country providing easy t...
1. Introduction to EU Single Market One of the main tendencies characterizing today's world economy is globalization. Thus, firstly increase interstate competition for economic resource, and secondly there is a development towards interstate unions. This was the main purpose of forming the European ...
In the mid 1990s, it received membership applications from the former Soviet bloc countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), the three Baltic states that had once been part of the Soviet Union (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), one of the republics of the former Yugoslavia (Slovenia) and two Mediterranean countries (Cyprus and Malta). ...
Furthermore, the Treaty of Nice looked ahead in the process of enlargement and limited the number of MEPs to a maximum of 732 and allocated seats between member states and candidate countries: Member States Candidate Countries Belgium 22 Bularia 17 Denmark 13 Cyprus 6 Germany 99 Czech Republic 20 Greece 22 Estonia 6 Spain 50 Hung...
