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| 1994 Ff |
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| Unemployment rose in most European countries, reaching figures like 12 percent in France and straining welfare systems despite continued overall economic growth. | 1 |
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| Jan. 10–11 |
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| NATO held a summit in Brussels and offered limited association to former members of the Warsaw Pact, beginning an initiative called Partnership for Peace. Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland approved the plan, which gave the countries offices at NATO headquarters and also changed the structure of NATO so that it no longer needed U.S. approval to respond to European crises. The summit also agreed to mount air strikes against Bosnian Serbs should it become necessary. | 2 |
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| March 29 |
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| The EU agreed to admit Austria, Sweden, Norway, and Finland pending referenda in each country. | 3 |
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| June 9–12 |
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| The 12 nations of the EU held elections; leftist parties kept the largest position in the European Parliament. | 4 |
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| July 21 |
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| After an earlier deadlock, the EU summit agreed on Jacques Santer, the premier of Luxembourg, for president of the European Commission. | 5 |
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| Sept. 29 |
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| All 16 countries of NATO agreed to name Willy Claes, the foreign minister of Belgium, as NATO's secretary general. On Dec. 1, however, NATO picked Javier Solana, Spain's foreign minister, as its ninth secretary general, replacing Willy Claes, who resigned due to charges of corruption. | 6 |
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