Chapter 14

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

Which one of the following is NOT an EU trade defence instrument?

a) Anti-dumping measure

b) Generalized System of Preferences

c) Anti-subsidy measure

d) Safeguards

Question 2

What is the reason for the continuing tension between the national preferences of member states and the European perspectives of the Commission, with regard to the Common Commercial Policy (CCP)?

a) The question of competence

b) International cooperation

c) Trade promotion

d) Trade defence

Question 3

Which body is defined as the real power behind and the decision-making centre for the EU's commercial policy?

a) Joint Committee

b) DG Trade

c) Economic and Financial Committee (EFC)

d) The 133 Committee

Question 4

In international monetary policy, the tensions mainly emerge:

a) from the EU's pursuit of the internalization of the euro.

b) between the requirements of internal management of the euro and the pressures of the global economy.

c) from the economies of the eurozone which have underperformed against major global rivals.

d) from the instability of the EU's monetary policy.

Question 5

Which one of the following is NOT one of the complex balances the EU faces in the making and implementation of EU external economic policies?

a) The balance between the collective interests of the EU and those of individual member countries.

b) The balance between the competing claims of multilateralism, inter-regionalism, bilateralism, and unilateralism.

c) The balance between the claims of different partners and rivals within the EU institutions.

d) The balance between the economic dimension of the EU's involvement in the world arena and the increasing levels of politicization.

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Chapter 14

Instructions

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5