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Events in the year 2016 in the European Union.

## Incumbents

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* President of the European Council
* Donald Tusk
* Commission President
* Jean-Claude Juncker
* Council Presidency
* Netherlands (Jan – Jun 2016) [1]
* Slovakia (July – Dec 2016) [2]
* Parliament President
* Martin Schulz
* High Representative
* Federica Mogherini

## Events

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### January

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* 1 January
* Netherlands takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of EU.
* San Sebastián (Spain) and Wrocław (Poland) are the European Capitals of Culture for 2016. Both cities will host events to promote their local culture.

### February

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* Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to send the millions of refugees in Turkey to EU member states,[3] saying: "We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses ... So how will you deal with refugees if you don't get a deal? Kill the refugees?"[4]

### May

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* On 26 May 2016 the European Commission issued letters of formal notice to 21 member states who had failed to notify the Commission of their transposition of one or more of the three new public procurement directives into their national laws by the due date.[5]
* Pact of Amsterdam, 30 May 2016: EU ministers responsible for urban policy agree to allow European cities to have more influence in EU policies across 12 priority policy areas critical to the development of urban areas.[6][7]

### June

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Of the 382 voting areas in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar a total of 270 returned majority votes in favour of "Leave" whereas 129 returned majority votes in favour of "Remain" in the referendum including all 32 areas in Scotland.

Leave

Remain

* The United Kingdom held a referendum on European Union membership, and voted to leave the EU.[8]

### July

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* 1 July
* Slovakia takes over the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of EU.

### October

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* 2 October – 2016 Hungarian migrant quota referendum: 3,362,224 or 98.36% of valid votes reject EU's mandatory migrant quotas.

## European Capitals of Culture

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* San Sebastián, Spain[9]
* Wrocław, Poland[10]

## See also

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* History of the European Union
* Timeline of European Union history

## References

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1. ^ "eu2016.nl". Archived from the original on 2016-01-03. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
2. ^ "eu2016.sk". Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
3. ^ "Erdogan to EU: 'We're not idiots', threatens to send refugees". EUobserver. 11 February 2016. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
4. ^ "Turkey's Erdogan threatened to flood Europe with migrants: Greek website". Reuters. 8 February 2016. Archived from the original on 26 June 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
5. ^ European Commission, May infringements' package: key decisions, Brussels, 26 May 2016, accessed 29 May 2016
6. ^ Government of the Netherlands, Cities get more influence in EU policies Government.nl, News item, 30 May 2016, accessed 11 November 2021
7. ^ Urban Agenda for the EU: Pact of Amsterdam, accessed 11 November 2021
8. ^ "Britain takes unprecedented step to leave European Union: Cameron to resign; markets rocked". Chicago Tribune.
9. ^ San Sebastián 2016
10. ^ "Wrocław 2016". Archived from the original on 2017-07-29. Retrieved 2016-01-11.

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