The Transformation from the Six into the EU 27

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - History, grade: 1,0, University of Pompeu Fabra, language: English, abstract: This article analyzes the history of European integration from
the end of the Second World War until today. It focuses on
the di¿erent enlargement steps and explains why the progressive
enlargement of the European community can be understood as a
mechanism with challenges and responses to internal and external
developments. From this point of view the text has a closer view
on the reasons why speci¿c countries decided to surrender a part
of its national sovereignty to a supranational institution within
the last sixty years.