Özet:

Today the EU is undoubtedly the most successful initiative, among those which have taken for 4-5 centuries, to consolidate Europe under a common roof. In fact, geographical, economic and political integration of Europe as a whole had been targeted but, as a tactic, starting with the economic integration, fi rstly the European Coal and Steel Communities Treaty of 1951 was conducted and it was followed by the Treaty of Rome in 1957. In the areas of economic cooperation some encouraging success was quickly achieved, and also with the Treaty of the European Single Act in 1986, and the effect of the tendency of change the bipolar international system of security, foreign policy was entered into cooperation so that the Integration of Europe has been gained a political dimension. In 1992, the Cold War period after the end of the bipolar international system, the target to build a “United States of Europe” on the carrier columns of Economy, Justice and Home Affairs, Foreign and Security Policy by the Maastricht Treaty of Union has been put. Thus, an integrated Europe, as a single unifi ed international system and as a huge power would have transformed into a global actor playing decisive roles. For achieving this in the whole of continent a quick economic, political and geographical integration has been intended to complete.The Amsterdam Treaty of 1997, the Nice Treaty of 2001, and fi nally, the Constitutional Treaty of 2004, have been conducted to build the technical, institutional and legal infrastructure of continental integration. With the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty by referendum in France and the Netherlands, it was entered the period of a crisis related to European integration; The European integration has reached to our days by putting into force the Treaty of Lisbon, signed in December 2009, as a reformed version of the Constitutional Treaty of 2007, with some diffi culties. At this stage we have reached, the European Union, representing the institutional structure of European integration, has been an example model of integration with its aspect of providing with an important contribution to peace and prosperity largely at the regional level by integrating the continent. The European Union, in terms of playing an effective global role as the founder and guardian of the global peace and stability, has remained rather inadequate, with regard to its own power and potentials and its own targets creating expectation for the entire world. This inadequacy arises because of the basic effect of the failure of developing a political will and strategic visions to be able to fulfi l its expected role, with the effect of the narrowconservative viewpoints and approaches

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