Chapter 09

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-d by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Question 1

What happened in 1967?

a) The EEC took over Euratom and the ECSC

b) The Common Agricultural Policy was established

c) Walter Hallstein became Commission president

d) The European Court of Justice was founded

Question 2

Which major policy area was being negotiated by the European Community in the 1960s?

a) A Common Agricultural Policy

b) A Common Transport Policy

c) A Common Environmental Policy

d) Oil and natural gas supply management

Question 3

Who was the first president of the Commission of the EEC?

a) Jean Monnet

b) Paul Henri Spaak

c) Sicco Mansholt

d) Walter Hallstein

Question 4

Who put pressure on national governments to speed up their reduction of internal tariffs in the EEC during the period 1958-1960?

a) The Commission and business interests

b) The European Court of Justice and the Commission

c) The French governments

d) The US

Question 5

Why, according to Lindberg's neo-functionalist account, did the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) emerge in 1960?

a) Economic development triggered demand for more agricultural products

b) Previous examples of co-operation encouraged integration in agriculture

c) Member states refused to remove internal tariffs if no progress was made in agriculture

d) The Commission, under strong leadership, skillfully negotiated a package deal

Question 6

True or false: Charles de Gaulle vetoed British membership of the EEC in 1963.

a) True

b) False

Question 7

What did the Fouchet Plan entail?

a) A supranational body was to lead cooperation on political and cultural matters

b) Extending the EC's powers to include a common defence policy

c) Development of an intergovernmental organization to pursue co-ordination of foreign and defence policies

d) Extending a preferential trade regime to former colonies in Africa

Question 8

What triggered the empty chair crisis in 1965?

a) French opposition to the British membership application

b) French opposition to the Common Agricultural Policy

c) German opposition to intergovernmentalism

d) French opposition to increasing the powers of the Parliamentary Assembly

Question 9

What did the French do in the empty chair crisis?

a) The vetoed the British membership application

b) They threatened to leave the EC

c) They boycotted Council meetings

d) They boycotted Parliamentary Assembly meetings

Question 10

What was the Luxemburg Compromise?

a) More supranationalism to appease Germany

b) More intergovernmentalism to appease France

c) An increase of the Parliamentary Assembly's powers to appease Luxembourg

d) A transition to majority voting to appease Luxembourg

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Chapter 09

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