Students Names : 1.Georgia Zalti 2. Elizabeth Stavrou 3.Elena Nikolaou

 The EU member States are 27  A treaty lay out: 1. EU objectives 2. Controls for EU institutions 3. Decisions made 4. Relationship between the EU and its member countries  The European Union is based on the rule of law

 Established formally by the Maastricht Treaty  2002 ~ Euro currency  Enlargement of EU

 Treaty was signed in Paris in 1951  Community of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux

 Signed in March 1957  EEC and EURATOM  Came into force on 1 January 1958

1. Commission, Council of Ministers, European Parliament and European Court of Justice 2. European government bodies

 Arguments for : 1. Barriers to trade 2. United peaceful Europe. 3. European reconciliation and democracy  Arguments Against: 1. Ignoring the cultural barriers 2. The Treaty was fundamentally confused

 Signed On February 7, 1992  Came into force on 1 November 1993  Creates the European Union, which consists of three pillars  It improved the Treaty of Rome  Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the creation of the Euro.

 The Treaty advanced two broad processes: 1. The increase of integration and EU responsibilities 2. The Treaty was seeking to strengthen the EU Parliament's power

 Arguments For: 1. A structure that is capable of coping 2. The process of closer integration through Monetary Union 3. The British Government succeeded in including the principle of subsidiarity in the Treaty  Arguments Against: 1. The increasing measures of the Treaty advanced a federalist model of European integration 2. The focus on big issues like EMU distracted people from the expansion of EU control

 It was approved by the European Council on 2nd of October 1997  On 1st May 1999 it came into force  Objectives: 1. Modify regulations of the Treaty of the European Union

 Arguments For: 1. Providing room for some countries to move faster 2. It made enlargement possible 3. UK in line with the social agreement of the Maastricht Treaty  Arguments Against: 1. new flexibility created a two speed Europe

1. Improved competences of the European Parliament, functions of the Court of Auditors, Economic and Social Committee and Committee of the Regions 2. Concept of closer cooperation was introduced in the Treaty of the European Union

 Signed on 26 February 2001  Came into force on 1 February 2003  Achieved the task that Amsterdam treaty failed to do

 Signed on 29 October 2004 by the 25 EU countries  Dutch and French rejected Constitutional Treaty  Did not come into force

 Signed by the EU countries on 13 December 2007 and came into force on 1 December 2009  Includes: 1. legal entity 2. The three pillars 3. A new rule

 Modified the Maastricht Treaty (1992)  Modified the Treaty of Rome (1957)

 The commission: one commission per member state  Before and after the Treaty of Nice (2001)  Stabilized European Council  New decision making process  European Parliament has more strengthen powers

 The EU only takes action with the treaties  The treaties Initiate the institutions of European Union  Over the years the treaties have been improved by other treaties