How have subsequent treaties modified the Treaty of Rome?
In 1992 the Single Market was launched. The Single European Act 1986, which facilitated this process, reduced Britain’s independent decision-making powers further by extending majority voting in certain areas of policy making. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty greatly enhanced the powers of the European institutions. * As the former Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Sir Peter Smithers, puts it: “When the Maastricht Treaty was before Parliament John Major forced it through by ruthless whipping and unacceptable personal pressures. It surrendered sovereign powers of the Queen in Parliament to an unelected body in Europe without a clear mandate from the electorate.” * Maastricht established the concept of European citizenship and laid down the agenda for the creation of the single European currency (the euro). Under the 1998 Amsterdam Treaty, the European Union, instead of being a community of nation states, became a “legal personality” in its own right, capable of acting as a single en
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