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What was the main goal of the Pleven Plan?
What was the main goal of the Pleven Plan?
- To develop a common market
- To establish a European Army (correct)
- To create a European Political Community
- To transfer WEU functions to the EU
What was the main reason for objections to the EDC?
What was the main reason for objections to the EDC?
- Lack of a mutual defence provision
- Lack of a framework for defining a European defence policy (correct)
- Lack of a European Army
- Weak democratic accountability structures
What was the WEU?
What was the WEU?
- A European Army led by a European Defence ministry
- A mutual defence provision (correct)
- A committee entrusted with fleshing out the details of the Beyen plan
- An operational arm for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy
What was the role of NATO in relation to the WEU?
What was the role of NATO in relation to the WEU?
What was the purpose of the Beyen plan?
What was the purpose of the Beyen plan?
What was the UK's position on the Beyen plan?
What was the UK's position on the Beyen plan?
How did the Beyen plan differ from the Monnet strategy?
How did the Beyen plan differ from the Monnet strategy?
What was the main goal of the Pleven Plan?
What was the main goal of the Pleven Plan?
What were the objections to the EDC?
What were the objections to the EDC?
What was the WEU and why was it created?
What was the WEU and why was it created?
What was the role of the WEU in relation to NATO?
What was the role of the WEU in relation to NATO?
When was the WEU dissolved and why?
When was the WEU dissolved and why?
What was the aim of the Beyen plan?
What was the aim of the Beyen plan?
How did the Beyen plan differ from the Monnet strategy?
How did the Beyen plan differ from the Monnet strategy?
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Study Notes
The Evolution of European Integration: From the Pleven Plan to the Rome Treaties
- The Pleven Plan aimed to create a European Defence Community (EDC) with a European Army led by a European Defence ministry.
- The EDC faced objections due to the lack of a framework for defining a European defence policy and weak democratic accountability structures.
- Work started on developing a plan for a European Political Community (EPC) to accompany the EDC.
- The French Parliament adjourned debates on the EDC, and the Western European Union (WEU) was created instead, with a mutual defence provision.
- NATO largely undertook the role of defence for WEU, and the WEU became an operational arm for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
- WEU functions were transferred to the EU, and the WEU was dissolved in 2011.
- The failure of the EDC and EPC did not halt the movement towards European integration.
- The Beyen plan aimed to re-center the debate on economic matters as a prelude to greater political integration.
- The Beyen plan proposed the integration of transport infrastructure, energy policies, the development of peaceful use of atomic energy, and the creation of a common market.
- The idea behind the Beyen plan was approved by the foreign ministers of the 6 ECSC countries, and a Committee was entrusted with fleshing out the details.
- The UK initially took part in the Committee but withdrew due to a preference for a more traditional form of inter-governmental cooperation.
- The Beyen plan was more ambitious in its economic aims than the Monnet strategy of step-by-step integration based on concrete, economic cooperation.
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