european union

The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 European states. Its origins can be traced back to the formation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1958, which included only 6 member states. The European Union as we know it today was created in 1993, when the Maastricht Treaty came into force. This treaty led to the creation of the official currency of the eurozone, namely the euro.

The Union has grown in size to 27 member states through the accession of new members. In order to join the European Union, states must meet the Copenhagen criteria, which were drafted in 1993 at the Copenhagen European Council. These criteria require that states preserve a democratic governance and respect human rights, have a functional market economy, as well as embrace their obligations toward the European Union.

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• Overnight Sentiment: Europe Is Open, Bankia Is Plunging And Spanish Bond Yields Are Soaring

  
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  The US may be closed today but Europe sure is open. And while the general sentiment may be one of modest optimism in light of four highly meaningless Greek polls which fluctuate with a ferocious error rate on a daily basis, now showing New Democracy in the lead (and soon to show something totally different - after all ...
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• Bird populations dropping in EU tied to farming policies

  
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  The goal of the EU policies was to boost farm growth so that the region was less reliant on outside food sources but the end result has been a bird population that has been cut in half since 1980. The Guardian:Indeed, according to a new survey, the chances of encountering any one of the 36 species of farmland birds ...
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• Christine Lagarde’s Greek comments provoke fury

  
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• News That Matters

  
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  Thetrader.se ? country in the outmost Southeastern part of the EU has grasped the headlines for quite some time. With only 2% of the EU’s economy and just 2.5% of its debt it became the “Witch” that is haunted by puritan Northern Europeans. It is claimed as the epicenter of laziness, lust and unproductively ...
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• News That Matters

  
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  Thetrader.se ? (Read more…) country in the outmost Southeastern part of the EU has grasped the headlines for quite some time. With only 2% of the EU’s economy and just 2.5% of its debt it became the “Witch” that is haunted by puritan Northern Europeans. It is claimed as the epicenter of laziness, lust and [...]
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• Greek Elections: The Fear of Uncertainty

  
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• Christine Lagardes Greek comments provoke fury

  
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  IMF chief rounded on by countrys political establishment after her description of Greeks as rampant tax-dodgers IMF chief Christine Lagardes uncompromising description of Greeks as rampant tax-dodgers has provoked a furious reaction in Athens less than a month before the crisis-hit country heads to the polls. ...
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• The Pain In Spain Continues

  
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• Fearful Germans add to Greeces woes by staying away in droves

  
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  Images of anti-German protests have caused 50,000 holiday cancellations in 10 days Every May, coaches carrying German tourists would cruise up the long winding road that leads from Pyrgos to ancient Olympia. There they would decant in en masse, a permanent fixture in the tavernas, bars and shops that line the ...
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• IMFs Christine Lagarde: more sympathy for poor African children than austerity-hit Greeks

  
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  International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde says she has more sympathy for poor African children than Greeks suffering under the countrys economic problems and austerity measures. Making clear that the IMF has no plans to relent on its austerity requirements for the country, Lagarde said she was ...
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  In Switzerland, the regulation of the telecoms and media sector falls into the competence of the Confederation.
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• Poll suggests Ireland will vote yes to EU fiscal treaty, but premier expects narrow result

  
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• EU challenges Argentinas trade restrictions at WTO; Repsol indicative of overall climate

  
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• Why fragile eurozone nations may want to lose Eurovision

  
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• 1972 was the year of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment that showed we are undermining the only Planet we have, and also the year of the Massacre at the Munich Olympics. We suggest a Minute of Silence June 20, 2012, at the opening of the

  
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  Today reached me the information that the Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel, the former Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Danny Ayalon, approached the Head of the World Olympic Committee to ask him to commemorate at this year’s London Olympics the memory that it is 40 years since the Munich Massacre, with a ...
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• EU, China Discuss ETS

  
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  Britain Can’t Afford to Fall for the Charms of the False Economics Messiah Paul Krugman THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Superstar economist Paul Krugman wants us to change course, but his solutions are simplistic. What does the future hold as Europe slides, ever more hopelessly, towards the abyss? As David Cameron ...
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