Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these milestones of European integration in chronological order.
- The Treaty of Lisbon enters into force, 2009
- Spain accedes to the European Communities, 1986
- Euro banknotes and coins enter circulation, 2002
- The Treaty of Maastricht creates the European Union, 1992
- The Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community, 1957
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- Spanish accession falls between the founding treaty and Maastricht.
- The single currency reaches people's pockets a decade after Maastricht.
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- The Treaty of Rome establishes the European Economic Community, 1957
- Spain accedes to the European Communities, 1986
- The Treaty of Maastricht creates the European Union, 1992
- Euro banknotes and coins enter circulation, 2002
- The Treaty of Lisbon enters into force, 2009
Why
Twenty-nine years separate the founding treaty from Spanish accession, which is why the doctrines of direct effect and primacy were already fully built when Spain joined. Spain did not negotiate them; it acceded to an order in which they were settled law, and the Constitutional Court's later work is about accommodating that fact rather than shaping it.
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