1980 Evento Età contemporanea Polonia
Solidarity
At the Gdańsk shipyards the Soviet bloc’s first free trade union is born. Communism loses its workers’ legitimacy.
La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.
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1980 Evento Età contemporanea Polonia
At the Gdańsk shipyards the Soviet bloc’s first free trade union is born. Communism loses its workers’ legitimacy.
1980 Evento Età contemporanea Islanda
Iceland elects the world’s first woman head of state by direct universal suffrage.
1981 Evento Costruzione europea Grecia
As the tenth member, Greece anchors its restored democracy in Community Europe.
1984 Evento Età contemporanea Liechtenstein
The last country in Europe to grant it, by a male-only referendum.
1985 Trattato Costruzione europea
Five states sign on the Moselle an agreement progressively abolishing internal border controls.
1986 Evento Costruzione europea Spagna
With Portugal, Spain joins the EEC: southern enlargement consecrates democratisation.
1986 Evento Costruzione europea Portogallo
Portugal joins the EEC on the same day as Spain and begins rapid economic catch-up.
1986 Catastrofe Età contemporanea Bielorussia
Nearly 70 % of the radioactive fallout lands on Belarusian territory.
1986 Trattato Costruzione europea
The internal market is scheduled for 1993 and qualified majority voting extended.
1988 Evento Età contemporanea Estonia
Three hundred thousand Estonians sing banned anthems together: dissent becomes massive.
1989 Evento Età contemporanea Romania
The only violent fall of a European communist regime; Ceaușescu is executed on 25 December.
1989 Evento Età contemporanea Cechia
In a few weeks and without violence the regime falls; Václav Havel becomes president.
1989 Evento Costruzione europea Ungheria
On 19 August Hungary opens its border with Austria: the first breach in the Iron Curtain.
1989 Evento Età contemporanea Lituania
Two million people form a human chain from Tallinn to Vilnius.
1989 Evento Costruzione europea
9 November opens German reunification and, in time, that of the continent.