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Is the EU a success for all nations? Some nations? Has it been harmful to some nations? Explain. minimum 400 words
The EU is the result of a co-operation phase that started in 1952 with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which aimed to make war between its members "not merely impensable, but also impossible." While Europe hasn't been free from war ever, there hasn't been an armed conflict between member states since the formation of the EU a remarkable achievement in the first half of the 20th century, given the history of brutal warfare. Maintaining peace between members through economic cooperation remains the primary purpose of the EU.
It is incomplete and unequal economic and monetary union. The EU can not talk in one hand on matters of foreign policy and security. The systems and decision-making processes are troubling the public and apparently in need of change forever. The EU is imperfect-but as one of Europe's most creative experiments in peaceful community building it will go down in history. The EU evolves, albeit slowly, in response to challenges. This deals with architecture policy–to which the treaties adhere–and crisis management policy. We can not be complacent about the threats it faces–Brexit, the migration crisis, a Russia that is militarily assertive
Worse yet, at a time of rapid progress elsewhere in the world, the ill-conceived single currency project has plunged the continent into a decade of anaemic growth. It has exacerbated class and generational divides within the area, as well as set north against south and west against east. Therefore, it is not shocking that the EU lacks both a democratic mandate and a vision for the future. It is potentially paralyzed administratively, facing either a sudden or prolonged internal collapse.
Of course, the result of such a conflict can not be anticipated, but in some way it will entail the creation of a new, global version of corporate capitalism with near interdependent relationships–whether friendly or hostile, beneficial or otherwise–between foreign producers and their governments, as well as between the governments themselves. Europe has always been a center of political and social change and its latest experiment has been a remarkable success (unlike the catastrophic undertakings of the first half of the 20th century). Its pre-modern existence, with multiple and competing States proliferating
Historically, Europe was a place of constantly changing and bitterly contested frontiers. By comparison, the main units of the states on Europe's western and eastern territorial fringes–England and Russia, at the center of the United Kingdom and the Russian Federation–have had much more stability, and thus may not see the need for a European solution to the sovereignty question as clearly as Central Europeans.