EUROPE DAY

EUROPE DAY IS LINKED WITH AN EVENT WHO TOOK PLACE FIVE YEARS AFTER :

• WORLD WAR ONE

• WORLD WAR TWO

• KOREEAN WAR

• VIETNAM WAR

THE SCHUMAN DECLARATION ( 9 MAY 1950 ) PROPOSED PLACING UNDER A SINGLE AUTHORITY THE FRANCE AND WEST GERMANY PRODUCTION OF :

• WHEAT AND CORN

• COAL AND STEEL

• CEMENT AND CONCRETE

• OIL AND GAS

ROBERT SCHUMAN WAS :

• PRESIDENT OF FRANCE

• CHANCELLOR OF WEST GERMANY

• FRANCE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• WEST GERMANY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

AS A RESULT OF SCHUMAN DECLARATION IN 1951 WAS CREATED :

• NATO

  ( NORD ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION )

• CEE

  ( EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY )

• UE

  ( EUROPEAN UNION )

• ECSC

  ( EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY )

THE SIX FOUNDING STATES OF ECSC ( 1951 ) WERE : FRANCE, WEST GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG AND

• SPAIN

• ITALY

• DENMARK

• GREAT BRITAIN

THE SCHUMAN DECLARATION OFFERED COOPERATION AS A SOLUTION FOR A HISTORIC RIVALRY BETWEEN :

• GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE

• FRANCE AND ITALY

• GERMANY AND FRANCE

• SPAIN AND GREAT BRITAIN

TODAY ( 9 MAY 2022 ) UE HAS :

• 12 MEMBER STATES

• 28 MEMBER STATES

• 27 MEMBER STATES

• 25 MEMBER STATES

"IN VARIETATE CONCORDIA" IS THE OFFICIAL MOTTO OF EUROPEAN UNION AND MEANS :

• UNITY IS POWER

• UNITY AND EQUALITY

• UNITED FOREVER

• UNITED IN DIVERSITY

THE ANTHEM OF EUROPEAN UNION ( "ODE TO JOY" ) HAS MUSIC COMPOSED BY :

• JOHANN STRAUSS

• JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

• FRIEDERICH HAENDEL

THE FIGURE TWELVE ( TWELVE STARS ) IS A SYMBOL OF :

• PERFECTION AND ENTIRETY

• POWER AND SIMMETRY

• POWER AND TRANQUILITY

• WEALTH AND PEACE