EU Parliament

The EU Parliament INTRO The worlds most far reaching experiment in trans-national democracy. Its very existence is controversial (some politicians have opposed its creation and evolution). Elected for the first time in 1979 is still very young parliament but has developed its role and powers since that time. At the beginning it was only a consulting body, but since Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties it has transformed into real legislative parliament. Now it is similar to national …

…cooperation, which started in the early 1970s, was to go beyond the economic and social framework set up by the Community treaties to achieve a genuinely common strategy in the field of foreign policy. CONCLUSION ·<Tab/>Development of the parliament in short time (25 Years) ·<Tab/>Great step forward in European integration ·<Tab/>Successful Experiment