EU ECONOMICS

1
EU ECONOMICS

• Evolution of European Unity
• Institutional Structure of European Union
• International Trade and Protectionism
• The European Budget
• Completion of Internal Market
• European Monetary Union
• Enlargement of the Community

2
EU POLICIES

• The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
• The Common Fisheries Policy
• Regional and Social Problems and Policies
• Environmental Policy
• Competition Policy in the European Union
• Common Transport Policy
• EU Commercial Policy
• Other Policies

3
EVOLUTION OF EUROPEAN UNITY

• Earlier Proposals
• Legacy of 2nd World War
• First Experiments
• - ECE, Brussels Treaty Organisation, CEEC and
  OECC, Council of Europe
• Schumann Plan and formation of ECSC
• European Defence Community
• Ideas for European Integration leading eventually
  to EEC

4
EUROPEAN UNION - TEMINOLOGY

• Term EU arises from Maastricht Treaty
• - three pillars, EC, Justice and Home Affairs
  and Foreign
• and Security Policy
• Does not replace European Community (EC)
• - comprises ECSC, EEC and EURATOM
• Confusion however reigns in relation to use of
  terms