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| 1987, Feb. 17 |
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| Sixteen NATO and seven Warsaw Pact nations met in Vienna for the first session of roundtable discussions on European conventional arms talks. | 1 |
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| May 14 |
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| The Council of Education Ministers approved the Erasmus program, designed to provide grants for EC students to study in other member countries and to establish a European university network. | 2 |
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| July 1 |
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| The Single European Act went into force. The act included measures to provide the EC with its own “adequate, stable and guaranteed” resources by allowing the EC to access a percentage of member countries' gross national product (GNP). | 3 |
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| Nov. 26 |
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| The Convention for the Prevention of Torture was signed by all members of the Council of Europe except Ireland and Turkey. | 4 |
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