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23 July 2007 | Formal opening of an intergovernmental conference (IGC) on a draft reform Treaty to amend the EU Treaties. The final result was the Lisbon Treaty, signed in December by 🇳🇱🇱🇺🇮🇹🇩🇪🇫🇷🇧🇪🇪🇸🇵🇹🇧🇬🇨🇿🇩🇰🇪🇪🇮🇪🇬🇧🇬🇷🇨🇾🇱🇻🇱🇹🇭🇺🇲🇹🇦🇹🇵🇱🇷🇴🇸🇮🇸🇰🇫🇮🇸🇪 #EUHistory 🇪🇺 #OnThisDay

23 July 2009 | Iceland 🇮🇸 applies for EU membership. 🇪🇺 In 2010, the EU granted the official candidate status and accession negotiations started that same year. 🛑 In 2013 the Government dissolved its accession team and suspended its application with no referendum involved.…

23 July 1952 | The ECSC Treaty enters into force. Jean Monnet is appointed president of the High Authority and Paul-Henri Spaak, of the Common Assembly Signed in Paris in 1951 by 🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱 the Treaty established the European Coal and Steel Community #EUHistory 🇪🇺 #OnThisDay

22 July 2004 | The @Europarl_EN elects @JMDBarroso🇵🇹 as the new President of the @EU_Commission. "I see myself as someone who can build bridges". ⌛️ Barroso served as President until 2014, being the longest-serving President, along with Jacques Delors (10 years) 🇧🇬🇷🇴🇭🇷 His…

22 July 1975 | The Second Budgetary Treaty is signed, granting the European Parliament the power to reject the budget as a whole. 💶 A substantial increase in its budgetary authority compared to the First Budgetary Treaty of 1970, that gave the Parliament the final say on…

21 July 2020 | After 4 days and nights of intense negotiations, EU leaders agree on #NextGenerationEU recovery package and #EUbudget for 2021-2027. ⌛ One of the longest #EUCO in history that brought the decision to issue common debt to finance NextGenerationEU, described as a…

21 July 2008 | Radovan Karadžić is arrested after 13 years on the run and sent to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia for trial. Convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity & war crimes. #OnThisDay

20 July 1999 | The @Europarl_EN elects Nicole Fontaine as its President. She led the EP from 1999 to 2002. The 2nd woman in history to hold that position. She oversaw the adoption of the euro, focused on a 'EU for citizens' and signed the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the…

20 July 2004 | The @Europarl_EN elects @JosepBorrellF as its President. The third Spanish 🇪🇸 politician to hold the position, after Enrique Barón and José María Gil-Robles. He led the EP until 2007. #EUHistory 🇪🇺 #OnThisDay

19-26 July 1994 | The new European Parliament elects Mr. Klaus Hänsch as its President. He served as President of the @Europarl_EN until 1997. #EUHistory 🇪🇺#OnThisDay

18 July 1961 | 🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱 express their wish to set up a political union during the 'Bonn Summit'. 🇪🇺 Prior to this, European integration had primarily focused on economic aspects (European Coal and Steel Community, EEC, Euratom). This summit marked a significant moment where…

17 July 2018 | EU and Japan sign a trade deal 🇪🇺🇯🇵. The biggest ever negotiated by the EU, creating the world's largest open economic area. A powerful message in defence of open, fair and rules-based trade. 📹Shinzo Abe @donaldtusk and Juncker #EUHistory @Trade_EU

17 July 1989 | Austria formally applies to join the European Community. Austria, one of the founding members of EFTA -the European Free Trade Area- joined the EU in 1995. 📹Alois Mock, Austrian Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs. #EUHistory 🇪🇺🇦🇹 #OnThisDay @EUKommWien

17-20 July 1979 | Simone Veil is elected President of the @Europarl_EN during the first mini-session of the first directly elected European Parliament. #EUHistory 🇪🇺 #OnThisDay

16-17 July 1975 | EU leaders open the door to the election of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage during #EUCO in Brussels. It finally happened in the 1979 elections. They also discussed the possibility of an EU passport. #EUHistory 🇪🇺 #OnThisDay

16 July 1990| Malta formally applies to join the EU The application had to be temporarily halted in 1996, when a change in government resulted in a change of political direction. In 1998, it was reactivated and Malta joined the EU in 2004 #EUHistory 🇪🇺🇲🇹 #OnThisDay @ECRepMalta

16 July 2019 | The @Europarl_EN elects Ursula @vonderleyen as President of the European Commission. 👱‍♀️The first woman to become President of the @EU_Commission. 🌎 von der Leyen declared her intention to lead a "geopolitical Commission." A shift towards a more assertive role…