AP European History / Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe
9.10 The European Union
Notes
Integration: the Treaty of Rome (1957, EEC), the Maastricht Treaty (1992, EU), the euro (1999/2002), eastward expansion (2004). Challenges: the eurozone debt crisis, migration, and Brexit (the UK left in 2020).
Practice
The Maastricht Treaty (1992):
EU founded.
The euro became physical cash in:
Introduced electronically in 1999.
The UK formally left the EU in:
Brexit.
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