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POLSC323 Final Exam - European Politics
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MCQs on European politics on both the Union and state levels.

POLSC323 Final Exam - European Politics
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1. Which three institutions did the Merger Treaty of 1967 unite?
2. What is the terminology for an area that is more economically integrated than a free trade area but less than an economic union?
3. Which global crisis almost shattered the European Union in the 1970s, as each individual member state chose its own economic path in response to the crisis?
4. What demographic pressure is causing European welfare states to face major funding crises, global financial crisis notwithstanding?
5. Which 2010 policy decision will in time fundamentally change the nature of the postwar German military?
6. Which European country, as a result of alleged Communist infiltration, was the impetus for what would be called the Truman Doctrine?
7. What is the name of the eighteen military units that the European Union operates under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), and which can be deployed within 10 days of activation by the EU Council?
8. Which EU-level student exchange program has made the idea of a 'European' identity among young people much more likely, or at least possible?
9. Which country, as one of the hardest hit in Europe, has an unemployment rate of 23% (almost double the rate of the rest of the Eurozone)?
10. What has been the dominant form of government established in Eastern Europe since the collapse of Communism?
11. Which European treaty gave Britain and Denmark an 'opt-out' from the single European currency known as the euro?
12. What political movement arose after World War II that envisioned a United States of Europe as the only way to avoid World War III?
13. What German political party adopted as its informal slogan the phrase 'Kinder, Kirche, Küche?'
14. What policy did the European Union create to allow free movement of people within most of its territory?
15. What is the formal name of the current French state?
16. What was the High Authority?
17. European legislation that has to be incorporated into national legislation is known as a ________________:
18. What 1968 event was a short-lived period of freedom of expression in Eastern Europe?
19. European pension plans generally rely on which assumption, no longer proving to be true as demographic shifts take place across the continent?
20. What organization was founded in 1975 as ameans to keep the superpowers talking during the Cold War?
21. The assassination of a parliamentarian in this country caused a massive shift in immigration policy, from one of Europe's most open to one of its most restrictive?
22. What major European policy actor controls the monetary policy of the 17 Eurozone member states?
23. Which European Union institution pushes for 'more Europe' in the form of ever-increasing integration?
24. What policy, adopted by the European Union in the 1960s, is designed to help former colonies with development assistance by importing their products into the EU at a reduced tariff level?
25. What French leader called a referendum on his popularity and resigned when the results showed his unpopularity?