Timeline European Integration
WWII = 1939-1945
Cold War = 1947-1989
Pre WWI-1960 = Exploring the different ways to EU integration
1923 = Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-Europa
1930 = Briand Plan
1940 = Nazi Funk Plan
+ call for the establishment of welfare states
1943 = Tehran conference
1945 = German Question:
Yalta conference + Potsdam Conference + Morgenthau plan
1947 = EU paternalistic welfare state
1948 = Marshall Aid (OEEC/OECD (how it’s called nowadays)) + Bretton Woods
+ The Hague congress
1949 = NATO + Establishment Council of EU
1950 = Schuman declaration
1951/52 = ECSC (EP = The Parliamentary Assembly)
1952 = European Defence community/European Political Community
1954 = Western European Union (WEU) an intergovernmental defense organisation.
1956 = Suez crisis
1957/58 = Treaty of Rome: EEC + Euratom/EAEC
+ CAP: living standards higher and food prices lower
+ Cohesion: Creating unity on market-level
1960-1973 = Constructing the European Community
1960 = European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
1961 = UK attempts to join EC, De Gaulle VETO
1965/66 = Empty chair crisis
1966 = Luxembourg compromise
1967 = UK attempts to join EC 2nd time, De Gaulle VETO
1969 = De Gaulle replaced by Pompidou + Reorganization common agricultural policy.
1970 > = From industry to service sector
1970 = European Political Cooperation
1971 = Collapse of Bretton Woods system
1773-1987 = Determining the purpose of the European Community
1973 = UK joins EC (+ Oil crisis 1)
+ Copenhagen Declaration: for the first time ‘European Identity’ in being named
1975 = Euroscepticism: UK already doubts its place in the EU!
+ First meeting of the European Council in Dublin
1976= Tindemans report: we see EU culture appearing through mainly symbols
WWII = 1939-1945
Cold War = 1947-1989
Pre WWI-1960 = Exploring the different ways to EU integration
1923 = Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-Europa
1930 = Briand Plan
1940 = Nazi Funk Plan
+ call for the establishment of welfare states
1943 = Tehran conference
1945 = German Question:
Yalta conference + Potsdam Conference + Morgenthau plan
1947 = EU paternalistic welfare state
1948 = Marshall Aid (OEEC/OECD (how it’s called nowadays)) + Bretton Woods
+ The Hague congress
1949 = NATO + Establishment Council of EU
1950 = Schuman declaration
1951/52 = ECSC (EP = The Parliamentary Assembly)
1952 = European Defence community/European Political Community
1954 = Western European Union (WEU) an intergovernmental defense organisation.
1956 = Suez crisis
1957/58 = Treaty of Rome: EEC + Euratom/EAEC
+ CAP: living standards higher and food prices lower
+ Cohesion: Creating unity on market-level
1960-1973 = Constructing the European Community
1960 = European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
1961 = UK attempts to join EC, De Gaulle VETO
1965/66 = Empty chair crisis
1966 = Luxembourg compromise
1967 = UK attempts to join EC 2nd time, De Gaulle VETO
1969 = De Gaulle replaced by Pompidou + Reorganization common agricultural policy.
1970 > = From industry to service sector
1970 = European Political Cooperation
1971 = Collapse of Bretton Woods system
1773-1987 = Determining the purpose of the European Community
1973 = UK joins EC (+ Oil crisis 1)
+ Copenhagen Declaration: for the first time ‘European Identity’ in being named
1975 = Euroscepticism: UK already doubts its place in the EU!
+ First meeting of the European Council in Dublin
1976= Tindemans report: we see EU culture appearing through mainly symbols
