Chapter 19 Multiple choice questions

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True or false: Neo-functionalism is usually considered to provide the best explanation for the initial decision to establish a common market.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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Why did the Council of Ministers agree to an accelerated timetable for completion of the common market in 1960?

The removal of internal barriers to trade was popular with voters correct incorrect

It was made a condition of creating the Common Agricultural Policy, which member states wanted correct incorrect

The German government finally dropped its opposition correct incorrect

European industrial interests were strongly in favour of it correct incorrect

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Which of the following is an example of a non-tariff barrier to trade?

A quota on the amount of goods that can enter a country correct incorrect

National product safety standards correct incorrect

A tax levied on imported goods correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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What measure in the Single European Act was crucial for the success of the completion of the single market?

The adoption of qualified majority voting in the Council correct incorrect

The removal of indirect taxation correct incorrect

The introduction of the single currency correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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What were the 'freedoms' identified by the White Paper on the completion of the internal market?

Free movement of goods and labour only correct incorrect

Free movement of goods, services, and labour correct incorrect

Free movement of goods, labour, and capital correct incorrect

Free movement of goods, services, labour, and capital correct incorrect

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Which of the following factors do both intergovernmentalists and supranationalists agree was an important motivating force behind the 1992 programme?

The work of Jacques Delors correct incorrect

The sluggish economic performance of Europe correct incorrect

Europe's rapid economic growth correct incorrect

The role of influential member state leaders correct incorrect

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Research by Armstrong and Bulmer (1998) reveals that in relation to contested interpretations of single market rules, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) generally favoured which of the following?

Large states correct incorrect

Fines correct incorrect

National protectionism correct incorrect

Free-market interpretations correct incorrect

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The 'country-of-origin principle' applies to which of the following?

The free movement of people correct incorrect

The free movement of goods correct incorrect

The free movement of capital correct incorrect

The free movement of services correct incorrect

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True or false: The Commission tended to adopt targets and voluntary codes to encourage implementation and enforcement.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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Which policy areas were excluded from the White Paper on the internal market?

Tax harmonization and energy correct incorrect

Tax harmonization and company law correct incorrect

Transport and telecommunications correct incorrect

Energy and telecommunications correct incorrect