Biokozy’s shooting stars

While reading about EU I have realized that moste of you should know some facts about our European integration. Especially history of the EU. So here is short history.

ECSC is the first community founded in year 1951 (entered into force 1952)

EEC and EURATOM was founded in year 1957 (entered into force 1958)

Another important treaty was Merger Treaty in 1967

In 1973 was first enlargement of Community. UK, Ireland and Denmark joined Community.

As you may have noticed we have every 5 years elections of members for European Parliament. 1979 there were first elections before this year there were no direct elections.

In 1981 Greece joined EU and in 1986 Portugal and Spain.

Next big thing that happened in Europe was Single European Act signed in 1986 (entered into force 1987).

In Dutch Maastricht Treaty of European Union was signed (signed 1992/entered into force 1993)

Austria, Sweden and Finland joined Union in year 1995.

Amsterdam Treaty was signed in 1997 that entered into force in 1999.

Nice Treaty followed that was signed in 2001 and entered into force in 2003. Big step for Community was in year 2002 when Euro was introduced and year 2004. In that year 10 countries joined European Union (Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia). Next enlargement was in 2007 with Bulgaria and Romania. This was also the year when we in Slovenia changed our old currency for Euro, as was the year of signing of Lisbon Treaty. 2008 was big for Cyprus and Malta, they too joined Euro zone.