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	Western European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Not to be confused with the European Union (EU), the Western European Union (WEU) is a partially dormant European defence and security organization, established on the basis of the Treaty of Brussels of 1948 with the accession of West Germany and Italy in 1954.
		As a result of the failure of the European Defence Community on October 23, 1954 the WEU was established with the incorporation of the then West Germany and Italy.
		The Petersberg tasks, declared by the WEU in 1992, were incorporated in 1997 into the treaty of Amsterdam of the EU, forming the basis of the European Security and Defence Policy which frames a common policy to deal with humanitarian and rescue, peacekeeping and tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peacemaking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_European_Union (840 words)

	Western European Union. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Since Western military cooperation had been dominated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Western economic coordination by the European Economic Community and later the European Free Trade Association, the primary function of the WEU was to supervise the rearmament of Germany, as provided for under the Paris Pacts.
		In 1960, the WEU transferred its cultural and social activities to the Council of Europe.
		Under the Maastricht Treaty (1992), the WEU was envisioned as the future military arm of the European Union (EU); it remained institutionally autonomous.
	www.bartleby.com /65/we/WestrnEU.html (282 words)

	Western European Union
		Western European Union (WEU): Not to be confused with the European Union, a largely dormant European defence and security organization composed of those states members of both NATO and the EU.
		Most of its functions are in the process of being merged into the European Union.
		The Secretary-General of the WEU is Javier Solana[?], who is also Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/we/WEU.html (166 words)

	Western European Union - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Western European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		However, the European Council meeting at Cologne, Germany, in June 1999, agreed that the European Union should be given responsibility for many of the military crisis management activities previously the remit of the WEU.
		In 1991 WEU member states who were also signatories to the Maastricht Treaty agreed on the need to develop a European security and defence capacity.
		Prior to the WEU, the Western Union was formed by the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, to implement the Treaty of Brussels in 1948, ‘for collaboration in economic, social, and cultural matters and for collective self-defence’.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Western+European+Union (369 words)

	MSN Encarta - European Union
		The European Union headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
		In 1991 the governments of the 12 member states signed the Treaty on European Union (commonly called the Maastricht Treaty), which was then ratified by the national legislatures of all the member countries.
		Some supporters of European political unity, such as the French statesman Jean Monnet, further believed that if the nations of Europe were to resume a dominant role in world affairs, they had to speak with one voice and command resources comparable to those of the United States.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579567/European_Union.html (896 words)

	Western Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western Europe was largely defined by the Cold War, with the "Iron Curtain" separating it from Eastern Europe (Warsaw Pact countries).
		Western Europe is mainly a cultural/political concept coined, forged and used during the Cold War.
		Additionally, French President Jacques Chirac was quoted as telling eastern European nations that expressed support for the US in the Iraq War, that they "missed an opportunity to keep quiet" and were "not very well-mannered and a little careless of the dangers which come with a too-rapid alignment with the American position".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Europe (2222 words)

	European Union - Britannica Concise
		European Parliament - Legislative assembly of the European Union (EU).
		EUROPEAN UNION - The drive to achieve economic and monetary union by 1999 and preparations for the enlargement of the European Union during the coming decade dominated the EU's political agenda during 1996.
		European Union - Agreement on the final stages of preparation for European economic and monetary union, an accord on a new treaty on closer political union, and the first tentative steps toward a major future expansion in its membership dominated developments within the European Union (EU) in 1997.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9364020 (687 words)

	Western European Union
		, the primary function of the WEU was to supervise the rearmament of Germany, as provided for under the Paris Pacts.
		In 1960, the WEU transferred its cultural and social activities to the
		Under the Maastricht Treaty (1992), the WEU was envisioned as the future military arm of the
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0851907.html (289 words)

	BITS EU Russia Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WEU is an organisation which was set up in 1948 for the purposes of cooperation on defence and security.
		The Treaty on European Union raised WEU to the rank of an "integral part of the development of the Union", while preserving its institutional autonomy, and gave it the task of elaborating and implementing decisions and actions which have defence implications.
		In their Maastricht Declaration of 10 December 1991, the WEU Member States invited the European countries that were members of NATO but not of the European Union to become associate members of WEU.
	www.bits.de /NRANEU/EuropeanSecurity/WEU-Facts.htm (444 words)

	Western European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The project was rejected by the French Parliament in 1954, and the Western European Union was created in 1954 by a new European pact signed in Brussels, allowing the rearming of Federal Republic of Germany and ist integration in WEU (and NATO).
		According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], the flag of the Western European Union is blue with ten yellow five-pointed stars in a circle (broken at the top) containing the white letters WEU horizontally and UEO vertically (thus sharing the E).
		The former flag of Western European Union, had nine golden stars (for the 9 members listed above, excluding Greece) and the stars were not all of the same size, but diminished from the center.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/eur^weu.html (860 words)

	Greg Wolf's Bible Prophecy Studies - Western European Union - WEU - Roman Empire
		The Treaty of Amsterdam made the WEU an "integral part of the development of the Union" by giving it an operational capability in the field of defence.
		The WEU played a major role in the first Petersberg tasks, such as the police detachment in Mostar or cooperation with the police in Albania.
		The WEU's subsidiary bodies, the Security Studies Institute and the Satellite Centre, were hived off to the Union on 1 January 2002.
	www.gregwolf.com /news-roman-empire-weu.htm (377 words)

	The Ultimate Western European Union Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The WEU was established on October 23, 1954, as part of a modified version of the Brussels Treaty, in response to the failure of the European Defence Community treaty.
		The Parliamentary Assembly of the WEU is composed of the delegations of the member states to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which, fearful for its future existence with the winding up of the WEU, has been lobbying for itself to be recognised as the "European Security and Defence Assembly".
		The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC), both established to function under the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy pillar, are replacements to the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Western Union Satellite Centre which had been established to function in connection to the WEU.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/WEU (490 words)

	Spain's Incorporation In the Western European Union. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spain's incorporation into the Western European Union was already mentioned in the Decalogue presented by the President of the Spanish Government in October 1984.
		The Spanish Government demonstrated that it was convinced that a revitalized European Union would contitute a useful and complementary instrument of the Single European Act and would be one of the most effective ways to reinforce the European pillar of the Atlantic Alliance.
		Spain's adhesion to the WEU, concluded the Government's message, is fully compatible with Spanish peace and security policy, and, therefore, with the terms approved in the referendum on Spain's continued membership in the Atlantic Alliance, it symbolizes one more step in the nation's full incorporation into the European scene.
	www.sispain.org /english/foreign/western.html (250 words)

	South-Western: European Monetary Union
		The economic advantages of EMU [European Monetary Union] increase in proportion to the size and stability of the euro region.
		One of the shortcomings of the European Monetary Union is that three members of the European Union (Britain, Denmark, and Sweden) have chosen to not participate in the European Monetary Union.
		One of the major issues facing the European Union is the process of "Enlargement." As of 4/10/03, 13 additional countries (10 former Soviet bloc economies and Malta, Cyprus, and Turkey) have applied for membership in the EU.
	www.swlearning.com /economics/policy_debates/monetary_union.html (1625 words)

	Western European Union - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The WEU was established under the Modified Brussels Treaty, in response to the failure of the
		The Parliamentary Assembly of the WEU is composed of the delegations of the member states to the Parliamentary Assembly of the
		The Secretary-General of the WEU is Javier Solana, who is also Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and High Representative for the
	www.gurupedia.com /w/we/weu.htm (235 words)

	News from the USIA Washington File
		The role of the WEU, the "Eurocorps," and even the security dimension of the European Union have all been the subject of considerable transatlantic controversy.
		Some in Europe believed that you could have a common defense within the European Union, separate from the common defense we already had in the North Atlantic Alliance, and that WEU would eventually be absorbed by the European Union.
		In such cases, it made sense to enhance the potential for the European members of the Alliance to act -- using the vehicle of the revitalized Western European Union -- with the U.S. in a largely supporting role.
	www.fas.org /man/nato/offdocs/us_98/98050503_wpo.html (1743 words)

	History: The Western European Union
		On October 21st 1959 the Council of the WEU agreed to remove the restriction on the construction of ground-to-air and air-to-air anti-aircraft missiles by West Germany.
		On 24th May 1961 the Council of the WEU raised the tonnage limit for eight West German destroyers to 6,000 tons, which was double the existing general limit, to build fleet auxiliary vessels of up to 6,000 tons and to manufacture influence mines for port protection.
		It sees the WEU as the strengthening of the European pillar within the NATO Alliance, which the U.S. has been asking Europe to do for some time, but is very wary of the increasing strength of the European military forces and co-operation between EC countries.
	www.cyberessays.com /History/115.htm (3764 words)

	Western European Union on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		European Union Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (C) and Slovakia's Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda (L) talk at Milan Ratislava Stefanik's airport in Bratislava, 10 April 2006, after they went for a trip over western Slovakia flooded areas.
		European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana (L) and Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik are pictured, 11 March 2006 in Salzbourg, at the end of the Family Photo at the EU-Balkan Gymnich meeting, an informal meeting of EU Foreign ministers with talks on western Balkans states.
		Western lady talks to Eastern friend Who has the advantage of a still unblocked window in the beginning days of the erection of the wall.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/westrne1u1.asp (1108 words)

	Luxembourg Presidency - Luc Frieden at the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU)
		Luc Frieden at the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU)
		The action of the ALTHEA operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina is contributing to achieving the European Union’s long-term objective: the advancement of a stable, peaceful and multi-ethnic Bosnia-Herzegovina.
		The ALTHEA operation demonstrated that the European Union and NATO are cooperating in an exemplary manner and are developing constructive synergies to manage international crises.
	www.eu2005.lu /en/actualites/discours/2005/06/14frieden (2311 words)

	Germany Western European Union - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Those in the United States critical of moves to revive the WEU, however, suggested that a European defense structure was redundant and could evolve as a competitor for NATO resources and personnel.
		Members of the WEU, meeting in Bonn on November 18, 1991, had issued a communiqué expressing a desire for enhanced dialogue with the emerging democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, and the Soviet Union.
		The WEU also committed itself to creating a fact-finding mission to the former Soviet republics to further investigate meaningful ways in which security dialogue could be fostered.
	www.photius.com /countries/germany/government/germany_government_western_european_uni~7806.html (1346 words)

	The search for a European intelligence policy
		European states, at least in principle with their support of the CFSP, have the desire to harmonise their differences in order to create a coherent and co-operative European Foreign Policy.
		The establishment of Europol was agreed in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union of 7 February 1992.
		The MEDA Programme is the main financial instrument of the EU for the implementation of the Euro Mediterranean Partnership, to accompany the reform of social and economic structures in the Mediterranean non-member countries.
	www.fas.org /irp/eprint/baker.html (7206 words)

	European Union
		Following decisions taken by the European Union heads of state and government at the Helsinki and Nice European Councils in December 1999 and in December 2000, new and tailor-made structures in the military and political areas are being set up in Brussels to enable decision-making in crisis situations.
		The Defence commitment in Article 5 in the Western European Union Treaty was not taken over by the EU when other Western European Union functions were subsumed in the EU at the beginning of 2002.
		The European Union Military Committee (EUMC) is composed of the Chiefs of Defence represented by their military representatives.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/eu.htm (766 words)

	Western European Union -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Agreement on the final stages of preparation for European economic and monetary union, an accord on a new treaty on closer political union, and the first tentative steps toward a major future expansion in its membership dominated developments within the European Union (EU) in 1997.
		For the European Union (EU), 1995 was a year marked by introspection and internal debate about both its future constitutional development and its role in international affairs.
		Largely as a result of feudal traditions and institutions, European workers lacked the basic political and social freedoms—voting rights, equality before the law, and the right to move from job to job.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9076660 (947 words)

	AllRefer.com - Germany - Western European Union - Eurocorps \| German Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In conjunction with this diplomatic consensus, it was agreed that the Western European Union (WEU), after decades o f relative dormancy, would become the primary instrument with which the continent would enhance its own defense capability.
		Those in the United States cr itical of moves to revive the WEU, however, suggested that a European defense structure was redundant and could evolve as a competitor for NATO resources and personnel.
		The December 1991 EC summit in Maastricht declared that the WEU would serve as an instrument of European defense and as such would have the effect of strengthening the Eu ropean pillar of NATO.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/germany/germany150.html (1447 words)

	European Union Internet Resources
		The Court of Justice of the European Communities ensures that EU legislation is interpreted and applied consistently across EU countries.
		Together with the Council, it comprises the legislative branch of the institutions of the Union.
		Mostly dormant European defense and security organization established by the Brussels treaty of 1948 and composed of states who are members of both NATO and the EU.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_eu.html#council (1707 words)

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