European Union and Taiwan

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European Union and Taiwan

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• 1 November 2006
• 2006 International Affairs Personnel Training
  Program, Kaohsiung

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The Birth of EU

• Reflective mentality The historical roots of the
  European Union lie in the Second World War. The
  idea was born because Europeans were determined
  to prevent such killing and destruction ever
  happening again.
• From 6 to 25 In the early years, the cooperation
  was between six countries and mainly about trade
  and the economy. Now the EU embraces 25 countries
  and 450 million people, and it deals with a wide
  range of issues of direct importance for our
  everyday life.

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Three Communities

• European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Paris
  in April, 1951. It was the prototype of the
  European Union.
• In 1957, six countries also signed Treaty of
  Establishing European Atomic Energy Community
  (EAEC) and Treaty of Establishing European
  Economic Community (EEC).

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• European Unions territory10.5 million square
  kilometer
• Population450 million
• Western Europe??????
• Central and Eastern Europe?????
• Southern Europe???
• Northern Europe?????
• Eastern Europe???

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Map of NATO members in Europe
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Main Organs of EU

• The European Commission
• The Council of the European Union
• The European Parliament
• The Court of Justice

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The European Commission Promoting the common
interest

• It is independent of national governments.
• It drafts proposals for new European laws and
  budgets.
• The Commission consists of 25 women and men one
  from each EU country. They are assisted by about
  24 000 civil servants, most of whom work in
  Brussels.
• The President of the Commission is chosen by EU
  governments and endorsed by the European
  Parliament. (José Manuel Barroso)

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The Council of the European Union Voice of the
Member States

• It is responsible for passing laws and taking
  policy decisions.
• The Council consists of ministers from the
  national governments of all the EU countries.
• Each country has a number of votes in the Council
  broadly reflecting the size of their population,
  but weighted in favor of smaller countries.

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The European Parliament Voice of the people

• The European Parliament is elected every five
  years by the people of Europe to represent their
  interests.
• The present parliament, elected in June 2004, has
  732 members from all 25 EU countries. Nearly one
  third of them (222) are women.
• The main job of Parliament is to pass European
  laws. Parliament and Council also share joint
  responsibility for approving the EUs 100
  billion annual budget.

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The Court of Justice The rule of law

• The job of the Court of Justice is to make sure
  that EU law is interpreted and applied in the
  same way in all EU countries.
• The Court is located in Luxembourg and has one
  judge from each member country.

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European Union Member States

• Member states 25 member states
• Candidates countries Bulgaria, Romania,
  Macedonia, Turkey
• Others Ukraine, Norway, Belarus, or even Russia?

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Enlargement three prerequisites

• a political criterion candidate countries must
  have stable institutions guaranteeing democracy,
  the rule of law, human rights and respect for and
  protection of minorities.
• an economic criterion candidate countries must
  have a functioning market economy and be able to
  cope with competitive pressure and market forces
  within the Union.
• The criterion of being able to take on the
  obligations of EU membership, including adherence
  to the aims of political, economic and monetary
  union. This means candidate countries must adopt
  the entire body of EU law known as the acquis
  communautaire.

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Common Foreign and Security Policy

• Changing of global politics
• Globalization and competition
• Terrorist attacks and new defense troops
• Henry Kissinger in the 1970s If I want to talk
  to Europe, who do I phone?
• Goals EU army is able to deploy within 60 days a
  force of up to 60 000 troops, with naval and air
  support, and to sustain it for at least one year.

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EU-Taiwan Relations

• EU-China and One China Policy
• Taiwans economic cooperation with EU and its
  democratic development
• Taiwans foreign policy with regard to EU

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EU-China and One China Policy

• to engage China further, both bilaterally and on
  the world stage, through an upgraded political
  dialogue.
• to support China's transition to an open society
  based upon the rule of law and respect for human
  rights.
• to encourage the integration of China in the
  world economy through bringing it fully into the
  world trading system, and supporting the process
  of economic and social reform that is continuing
  in China.
• to raise the EU's profile in China.

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EU-China economic relations

• Since 1978, EU-China trade has increased more
  than 60-fold and reached around 210 billion in
  2005 (Eurostat).
• In 2005 China remained the EU 2nd biggest trading
  partner (after the US) and, according to China's
  statistics, the EU is Chinas first trading
  partner (ahead of the US and Japan).
• China is the second largest beneficiary out of
  180 of the EU's Generalized System of Preferences
  (GSP) scheme.

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EU-China Trade Statistics
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EU-Taiwan Relations

• Taiwan is the fourth-largest trading partner of
  Europe in Asia, with the Asian region rapidly
  growing in economic strength.
• Trade between the EU and Taiwan has increased
  almost sevenfold in the past two decades. Taiwan
  is the EU's fourth largest trading partner in
  Asia and fourteenth largest trading partner in
  the world with a total trade volume of more than
  32 billion. The EU was Taiwan's fourth largest
  market (after USA, Japan and Hong Kong).
• Visas issued both ways to short-term visitors are
  also on the increase, with a record-high 300.000
  Taiwanese travellers to the EU in 2005.

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EU's Taiwan policy

• The EU follows a one-China' policy. However, it
  recognizes Taiwan as an economic and commercial
  entity, and has solid relations with Taiwan in
  non-political areas, such as economic relations,
  science, education and culture.
• In March 2003 the European Economic and Trade
  Office (EETO) was opened in Taipei and is headed
  by Mr. Brian McDonald. It was officially
  inaugurated in July 2003 on the occasion of
  yearly consultations between EU and Taiwanese
  officials.
• The business interests of European companies have
  been championed by the European Chamber of
  Commerce Taipei (ECCT) since its founding in
  1988.

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Trade in goods between the EU and Taiwan, billion
Euros
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Taiwan trade by Member States of the European
Union

• Germany has been Taiwans first European trade
  partner for several years.
• The most impressive annual growth rates in
  bilateral trade with Taiwan came in 2005 from new
  members of the EU such as Slovakia (more than
  doubled bilateral trade at 230 million Euros),
  Hungary or Poland (both with an almost 50
  increase in bilateral trade at more than 500
  million USD each). This was mainly driven by
  Taiwanese exports to these new members, which are
  now fully integrated in the EUs single market

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