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Should The European Union Become A Conflict?

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For more than a thousand years, the history of the European continent has involved, primarily, war. Even since before most of the European countries could call themselves that, their main policies were militaristic in nature and focused on the acquisition of land and power. Though at first this may have seemed like a good plan, (probably because each empire or kingdom believed it would succeed in conquering all of the known world,) the nationalistic ambition and overall hostility multiplied, as suddenly, Europe found itself with dozens of new nations. Each new conflict caused another series of border disputes, fierce battles, economic warfare, etc, and at times the balance of power was nonexistent. In order to combat this issue, the …show more content…

If this were the case, making one huge country would not be a solution at all, and in fact could cause turmoil worse than before. This is why it was created as a union—loose enough to give each respective member some room, but specific enough in its rules to restrict any major action that is potentially detrimental to the EU. With all of the cultural differences and separations, this is a good thing because differences are acknowledged and embraced. Plus, if fighting a war will damage your enemy’s economy (and possibly your own as well,) and your economic affairs are directly linked to those of your enemy how likely are you to start a conflict? And if so many factors of these countries’ existences are connected and usually depend on what is allowed by the EU, there is less to fight over in the first place. The EEC, or Common Market, was created in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome. More than fifty years later, the EU has come to include twenty seven members, sixteen of which even use the Euro, a general currency accepted through what is called the “eurozone” ("New York Times" 1). Since its original establishment by its six founding members, the EU has gone through five enlargements to include most of Europe, at this point. Today it has the strongest currency, since the fall of the dollar, and given its structure, all twenty seven members are benefitting from it. The

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