Mr Lynch took Ireland into the European Economic Community (now the European Union) in 1973 and since then the Irish have embraced Europe with enthusiasm, happily ditching their own currency in favour of the euro.
In 2003, Britain's patent office rejected its application as "morally offensive to the public, " but Jesus Jeans registered "Jesus" through the European Union as a "Community Trademark, " valid across the European Union.
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There were organisations variously called the European Economic Community, The European Coal and Steel Community and so on, but there was not a European Union before 1 Nov, 1993.
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As British leader, Thatcher took a firm stance with the European Community -- the forerunner of the European Union -- demanding a rebate of money London contributed to Brussels.
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And since 2010, as the debt problem gradually mutated from individuals to banks to entire countries, one of Margaret Thatcher's loneliest battles her effort in the late 1980s to stop the integration of the European Community (subsequently given the grander title of the European Union) has begun belatedly to win respect.
On that day in 1951, leaders of six European countries--Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany--signed the Treaty of Paris to create the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of today's European Union.
Though Denmark achieved a measure of stability in the 1970s by joining the European Community (now Union) and its exchange-rate system, in the other Nordic countries inflationary bubbles swelled, then burst in the late 1980s, toppling banks in Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Three decades ago Greenlanders won a degree of home rule and then, anxious about fishing rights, promptly voted to pull themselves out of the European Union (then the European Community), completing the process in 1985, becoming the only people ever to secede from the continental block.
Fifty years later the European Economic Community has changed out of all recognition, having metamorphosed into the European Union and grown far beyond the original six members.
France has the largest Muslim community in the European Union, numbering about five million people.
This was a controversial election largely de-legitimized by the international community including the European Union and the Organization of American States (OAS).
The 10-nation bloc is scrambling to beat a deadline to transform the strikingly diverse region of 600 million people into a European Union-like community by the end of 2015.
Community tensions have increased as the European Union pushes the two sides through talks aimed at normalising ties.
The unacceptable situation in Syria has prompted the European Union to call on the international community to join its efforts in imposing additional sanctions.
The European Union (EU) surprised the capital markets community today by arriving at a fiscally integrated accord.
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The grant to buy the woodland came from Cydcoed - a Forestry Commission Wales community woodland project, which is funded by the European Union and Welsh Assembly Government.
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But in major drug-producing areas that was not how farmers and community leaders understood things, according to a new European-Union funded study about the links between Afghanistan's opium economy and conflict.
And so the international community came together, and the United States, the European Union and the United Nations imposed what Iran -- the Iranian leaders are acknowledging to be the most robust sanctions in history.
The African Union and the 15-country Southern African Development Community, an influential regional club, as well as the European Union and the United States, denounced a recent coup in Madagascar by Andry Rajoelina and said they would work to restore the country's constitutional order.
It was only in 1951 that the European Union began to take shape through the Treaty of Paris and the European Steel and Coal Community.
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