S&W Of Europe

Strengths and Weaknesses of the European Union

The European Union is a result of an effort to build a more unified Europe. Fifty years ago, after World War II, Europeans were seeking out a way to prevent another war as costly as this one had been. This would have to be done in both the economic aspects as well as politically. This would be good for Europe in that everyone would benefit from this unification and more powerful as a whole. The major difficulty to this is going to be the cultural differences between the countries themselves. This could lead different countries to feel as if they have to defend their cultures from attacks and could result in a total loss for this union.

The start of the European Coal and Steel Community was proposed by the foreign minister of France, Robert Schuman and consisted of six nations - Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The reason for this unification was to group together all of their coal and steel into a joint market. In years following, Rome Treaties established the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, which extended this common market to all areas of the economies of these nations. In 1967, these three treaty organizations were collaborated into a single gover

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The enthusiasm of cooperation and democracy that the European Union is pushing for hopes to open up lines of communication that will not easily be broken.

The ability of the people to move throughout the union is a definite strength. This is something that the chairmen of the Union have to come up with ways to make all the different cultures feel safe under their policies while maintaining their own culture.

In addition to agreement among the heads of state of all nations, it is important to realize that European Parliament is elected based on political groups, not member of state origin.