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ASSIGNMENT NO. 12

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This next series of exercises will look at Western Europe and the different cultures and climates of this area.

GO TO NETSCAPE. Click on open and type in http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/Europe/European_Union/Countries/

Answer the following questions:

1. Which countries are in the European Union?

Click on Open. Type in http://europa.eu.int/ Click on Welcome. Click on Abc.

2. What is the European Union?

3. What is its purpose according to the treaty?

4. Click on History. Click on Yearly chronology. What day in 1995 did Austria, Finland, and Sweden come into the Union?

5. A Custom Union came into being between the European Union and Turkey on what day in 1995?

Click back several times until you are back to The Abc of European Union.

Click on the Treaty on European Union.

6. Under Title I (Common Provisions), Article B, what are the objectives that the Union sets for itself?

Click Back three times and then click on Institutions.

7. How many citizens does the European Union Parliament represent?

8. Click on Organization...How many political parties are in the Parliament?

9. These are organized into how many political groups?

10. Who makes up the Bureau?

11. Where is much of Parliament's work done?

Click Back. Click on Dutch Presidency.

12. Click on Factsheets. Click on the Presidency. Who has the Presidency now?

13. How often does the presidency rotate?

14. How many times have the Netherlands held the presidency?

Click back. Click on relations with United States.

15. What is one problem that the Netherland Presidency will have to deal with in 1997 concerning the U.S.?

16. What is the estimated volume of trade between Europe and the U.S. (in dollars)?

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