History Questions
Answers with the names of cities in them
Institutions of the EU
Theoretical stuff
100
The first Community of the EU.
What was the European Coal and Steel Community?
100
This was the first global peace conference.
What is the Hague Peace Conference?
100
The name of the intergovernmental summit of the EU.
What is the European Council?
100
The process by which highly interdependent like minded states in a region which have a degree of economic and political complementarity engage in intensive and binding cooperation in selected areas of common interest?
What is regional integration?
200
This Revolution established a European economy in the 18th and 19th centuries but also introduced much more deadly instruments of war.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
200
This compromise was achieved in January 1966 among the six member states of the European Community to bring the French back into the fold.
What is the Luxembourg Compromise?
200
This institution represents national interests through member-government ministers.
What is the council of the EU?
200
This describes the concept of member states' ownership of some issue areas and EU ownership of other issue areas.
What is subsidiarity?
300
The large European country not part of the Roman Empire.
What is Germany?
300
This Treaty created the European Economic Community.
What is the Treaty of Rome?
300
This institution is intended to represent the people of the European Union.
What is the European Parliament?
300
What is a body of common and binding laws, treaties and practices.
What is acquis communautaire?
400
This event symbolized the Enlightenment values of individual rights, freedom and representative government.
What is the French Revolution?
400
This Treaty renamed the European Community to the European Union.
What is the Maastricht Treaty?
400
This institution is intended to represent the interests of the European Union.
What is the Commission?
400
Comparisons have been made to the United States with respect to a style of governance dividing power between levels of government.
What is federalism?
500
The "father" of the postwar European Integration movement.
Who was Jean Monet?
500
This treaty is seen as a corrective to the failed Constitutional Treaty.
What is the Lisbon Treaty?
500
This institution is tasked with interpreting Treaty Law and settling disputes between member states and the European Union.
What is the European Court of Justice?
500
The idea that the European Union exerts no more power than is necessary to solve a problem.
What is proportionality?