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Back ground information about the EU
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Back ground information about the EU The history of the EU goes back to 1946, when Winston Churchill called for a "kind of United States of Europe" in a speech he gave at the Zurich University. In the same year the European Federalists Union was set up in Paris, France. In 1948 the Western Union Treaty was signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Fostered by the International Coordination of Movements for the Unification of Europe Committee, the Europe Congress met in The Hague, the Netherlands. It was chaired by Winston Churchill and attended by 800 delegates. Participants recommended that a European Deliberative Assembly and a European Special Council, in charge of preparing political and economic integration of European Countries, was to be created. They also advise the adoption of a Human Rights Charter and, to ensure the respect of such charter, the creation of...
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