Catalogue question 205 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01

With East Germany's accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, the new federal states now also belong to …

Why — for every option

1. A — Correct: through accession to the Federal Republic, the new states automatically became part of what was then the European Community (today's EU), without a separate accession process.
2. B — The Warsaw Pact dissolved in 1991; the new states did not join it but left its sphere of influence with reunification.
3. C — OPEC is an oil-exporting cartel that the federal states have nothing to do with.
4. D — The European Defence Community was a failed project of the 1950s and no longer existed at all in 1990.

Source: european-union.europa.eu