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European Union (EU)

the economic and political grouping that came into effect in 1993 and resulted from the European Union Treaty, an important treaty signed at Maastricht on 7 February 1992. It amended the EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC) Treaty, indeed, renaming it the European Community. Thus the present legal structure is called the EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES or the European Union.
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After initially trying to delay reunification, France embraced it, in exchange for Germany's reaffirming its commitment to European unity and Franco-German leadership of the European community.
France's Fourth Moment
One of the more engaging sections of Reflections shows Conquest lashing out at the aberration of European unity. Europe, he reminds us, is just another Idea, one that has spawned a tentacular bureaucracy and that seeks to impose on the divergent European states a counterfeit uniformity.
Grand Inquisitor
A concluding chapter briefly surveys how ecumenical thought has progressed on the subject of European unity since 1945.
European Unity in Ecumenical Thinking: 1937-1948
Dawson asserted that a European order could only be reached through a return to a Christian Europe, an idea that constituted a governing theme of The Making of Europe, in which he wrote: "The ultimate foundation of our culture is not the national state, but European unity. It is true that this unity has not hitherto achieved political form .
A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson
In so doing fundamental questions are raised about sovereignty, subsidiarity, nationalism, federalism, cultural and linguistic diversity within European unity, in a word a debate which searches for the soul of Europe.
Visions of Europe: Conversations on the Legacy and Future of Europe
And there was, yesterday, a real European unity to recall our commitment and our will to preserve a strategic and economic sovereignty of Europe," he stated.
Macron: We will work to keep Iranian nuclear deal
The island is known as the birthplace of the European Union because a manifesto for European unity was written there during World War II, by exiled anti-Fascists.
Italian island wants to host migrant children to keep school open
Over his 16 years at the country's helm from 1982 until 1998 - first for West Germany and then for a united Germany - Mr Kohl combined a dogged pursuit of European unity with a keen instinct for history.
Former chancellor Kohl dies at 87
Victory for Mr Macron, who had championed European unity, could also strengthen the EU's hand in its complex divorce proceedings with Britain.
Macron sweeps to power as France rejects Le Pen; said: "The Prime Minister warmly rename itself from EXIT POLLS GIVE CENTRIST 65% SHARE OF THE VOTE the sh ulist / Emmanuel Macron
Rutte has said rejection of the association agreement would be a mistake and would weaken European unity, but that if efforts to find a compromise failed at the weekend, he would have no choice.
Dutch PM says he may agree to revoke support for EU-Ukraine treaty
While conservative David Maxwell Fyfe, aka Viscount Kilmuir, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1954 to 1962, made some poor and unpopular decisions in his career, he was also a successful prosecutor at Nuremberg, promoted European unity, and was one of the principal architects of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Lord Kilmuir: A Vignette

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