1986 Treaty

Single European Act

Name: Single European Act
Start: 1986

The internal market is scheduled for 1993 and qualified majority voting extended.

What leads to what

Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.

Upstream

leads to Van Gend en Loos judgment 1963 Un ordre juridique propre rend pensable un marché sans frontières.

Downstream

leads to Maastricht Treaty 1992 Le marché unique appelle une monnaie unique.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1986 — the context national timelines leave out.

1 year earlier Schengen Agreement
2 years later Singing Revolution Estonia
3 years later December revolution Romania
3 years later Fall of the Berlin Wall
3 years later Baltic Way Lithuania
3 years later Velvet Revolution Czechia
3 years later Pan-European Picnic Hungary
4 years later German reunification Germany

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

European integration 1950 – 2030 From coal and steel to a Union of twenty-seven.
Cold War 1947 – 1991 A continent cut in two, from Yalta to 1991.

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What was written of it

A day will come when all of you, nations of the continent, without losing your distinct qualities and your glorious individuality, will merge closely into a higher unity, and will form the European brotherhood.

Victor Hugo 1849

Opening address to the Peace Congress, Paris

Translated by the site, not by the author.