History of European Integration PART 2

Match the following words with their definitions:

• A referendum

• A general vote by the electorate on a single political question for a direct decision

• Rival

• Cave in, fall down, crumble

• Endeavour

• A union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries

• Collapse

• A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority

• Alliance

• An attempt to achieve a goal

Match the following words with their definitions:

• Reform

• Having power or influence that transcends national boundaries or governments

• Supranational

• Of two or more people fully in agreement

• Representative

• Of a body of people chosen to act and speak on behalf of a wider group

• Unanimous

• Give (something) legal or formal status

• Formalize

• Make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it

Match the following words with their definitions:

• Expansion

• The action of becoming larger or more extensive

• Impetus

• The action or process of making something stronger or more solid

• Unmatched

• The force or energy with which a body moves

• Consolidation

• The principle of participation by three or more parties, especially for governments 

• Multilateralism

• Unequalled, unrivalled, unparalleled

1.     The EU was founded as a result of the __________ Treaty on Nov. 1, 1993.

• Maastricht

• Lisbon

• Rome

• Belgium

1.     The EU was the result of gradual __________ since 1945.

• absorption

• transformation

• integration

• assimilation

1.     __________ and Germany eventually to establish an economic alliance.

• Italy

• France

• Japan

• Spain

1.     In 1951 the European __________ and Steel Community was created in Paris.

• Coal

• Gold

• Copper

• Platinum

With the signage of the Euratom Treaty, the foundation of __________ was set.

• Europe

• NATO

• EEC

• Alliance

Over the 1970s and 1980s, __________ in the EEC expanded.

• support

• allliance

• integration

• membership

The Maastricht Treaty also formalized the concept of EU __________.

• integration

• residency

• membership

• citizenship