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European Union (EU)

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Part of the book series: The Statesman’s Yearbook ((SYBK))

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Origin. The Union is founded on the existing European communities set up by the Treaties of Paris (1951) and Rome (1957), supplemented by revisions, the Single European Act in 1986, the Maastricht Treaty on European Union in 1992, the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997 and the Treaty of Nice in 2000.

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Barry Turner

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© 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Turner, B. (2008). European Union (EU). In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-74027-7_8

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