The #Schengen Agreement was signed on 14 June 1985 by five Member States (Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands).
When did the actual abolition of border controls start?

Bonus points for mentioning which two #EU Member States are not part of Schengen in the comments.

#EPSOprep #EPSO #EULaw
#EUHistory

#OnThisDay in 1975, the first official meeting of the European Council was held in Dublin, Ireland.

Interested in the history of European integration?

Read more: https://europa.eu/!KW6jCq

@EUCouncil #EUArchives #EUHistory
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For our next #EU general knowledge question we are looking at some of the badass women in #EUhistory
Which of the following women is famous for being a part of the anti-nazi resistance, smuggling out of prison & disseminating the ‘Ventotene manifesto - For a Free and United Europe’ (co-authored by Altiero Spinelli) & founding the European Federalist Movement in 1943?

#EPSOprep #EPSO

#USpol #UShistory #EU #EUHistory

As the #Trumpregime is selling themselves as the big defender of Europe.
And prevented the USSR taking over Europe. ❌

From 1945 to 1949, the USA had the atomic monopoly.

1945, Rumania and Albania fell.
1946, Bulgaria
1947, Poland
1948, CSSR & Hungary

The point is there was no reason why the USA could not have sent Stalin a nice video of some atom bomb tests and asked where the free elections were that he guaranteed himself in Yalta.

#ThrowbackEU

🩸 8. November 1917: In Petrograd stürzen Lenin und die Bolschewiki die provisorische Regierung. Die Revolution beendet die Zarenherrschaft und begründet die kommunistische Ära.

Mit der Gründung der Sowjetunion verschiebt sich das Machtgefüge Europas. Für Jahrzehnte teilt sich der Kontinent nun in Ost und West – eine Spaltung, deren Nachwirkungen wir bis heute spüren.

#Oktoberrevolution #EUHistory

Estadito europeo raquítico que se opone a la única oportunidad que tenía de salir de la miseria de la posguerra porque y mi soberanía quééééé.

Jean Monnet:  

#eurolectura #Mémoires #OGEuroPapa #EUhistory

Hoy hace cuarenta años que #JacquesDelors tomó posesión de su cargo como Presidente de la Comisión Europea.

Su legado incluye la creación del Mercado Único, el lanzamiento del Programa Erasmus y sentar las bases del euro.

https://commission.europa.eu/about/jacques-delors_es

🇪🇺 #EUarchives #EUHistory
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Hoy se cumplen 40 años de la llegada a la presidencia de la Comisión Europea de Jacques Delors.

Su legado incluye la creación del mercado único, el lanzamiento del Programa Erasmus y el establecimiento de las bases del euro.

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#EUarchives #EUHistory
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