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Prior to this, the venue for European Council summits was in the member state that held the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. [35] In order to make room for additional meeting space a number of renovations were made, including the conversion of an underground carpark into additional press briefing rooms. [ 36 ]
1949 – Treaty of London establishing the Council of Europe; 1950 – Schuman Declaration proposes pooling French and German markets for coal and steel; 1951 – Treaty of Paris creates the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) 1954 – Paris Agreements; Western Union transformed into Western European Union
The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about 1/4 of the eurozone's annual gross domestic product.
the Council of the European Union (of member state ministers, a council for each area of responsibility), the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank and; the European Court of Auditors. [1] Institutions are distinct from both advisory bodies to the European Union and agencies of the European ...
A first agreement was the Declaration of St James's Palace of 1941, when Europe's resistance gathered in London. This was expanded on by the 1941 Atlantic Charter , establishing the Allies and their common goals, inciting a new wave of global international institutions like the United Nations ( founded 1945 ) or the Bretton Woods System (1944).
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among each of the member states, allowing each state six months to help direct the agenda of the EU. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Similarly, each state is assigned seats in Parliament according to their population (smaller countries receiving more seats per inhabitant than the larger ones).
The European Union (EU) is a sui generis supranational union of states. At a European Council Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 June and 22 June 1993, [2] the European Union defined the Copenhagen criteria regarding the conditions a candidate country has to fulfill to be considered eligible for accession to the European Union:
The International Authority for the Ruhr (IAR) was created as part of the agreement negotiated at the London Six-Power conference in June 1948 to establish the Federal Republic of Germany. [28] French support to internationalize the Ruhr through the IAR was abandoned in 1951 with the West German agreement to pool its coal and steel markets ...