The End Of The Cold War

The European Union, EU, is a union that consists of 28 member states within the European continent. Being part of the EU allows member states/countries to enjoy more market opportunities by dealing with the same currency from an economical perspective. Member states deal with the Euro currency. This promotes free trade between member states which is beneficial for their boundary-less organizations. Businesses or the people within the EU can export their goods and services within member states increasing their market or imports when they face the problem of scarce resources. Hence, member countries of the EU benefit from increased market opportunity. Free trade, free commerce, no taxes, and free travel between its member countries; thus it creates a sense of nationalism. “Neo-functionalism is an

The growing power of a united Europe gives rise to controversy in today 's European-American relations. First of all, Western experts say that the United States and the European Union have serious economic contradictions: the euro distracts substantial financial flows from the US market, complicates US budget deficit, it becomes a powerful competitor to the dollar in international payments, weakens America in its efforts to impose fixed prices for oil and other raw materials. The current area of the single European currency - the most extensive in the

Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the European Community were initiated in 1953 when the first U.S. observers were sent to the European Coal and Steel Community. In 1990, the Transatlantic Declaration formalized relations between the EU and the US. Five years later, the New Transatlantic Agenda outlined a new framework for those relationships, including four areas for joint action: promoting peace, stability, democracy, and development; responding to global challenges; contributing to the liberalization and expansion of world trade; and improving communication and ensuring a long-term commitment to our partnership.

There are more scholarly arguments why EU has achieved economic integration. EU is considered as the largest economy in the world, the reason behind that is that EU quality and technical standards are far higher than the other states and even the US. EU marketplace is also superior in terms of quality since their standard is the benchmark for other countries if they want to sell their products internationally. EU is pioneer in creating automobile and some engineering products too. Moreover, EU has own externally directed investment wherein it export more capital in China than in US and it also gives more development assistance in other countries which still make its economic power superior and its integration

Since the end of the Second World War the leading countries in Europe try to build a sort of union to consolidate all Europeans countries together and avoid another conflict or a war. The union was evolving in time and it reached a point of the creation of the actual European Union in 1957 with only 6 countries – Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, West Germany, France and Luxembourg. Through the years European Union get bigger and bigger and today it have 28 official members even if there is Great Britain which is on the point to leave the union. It is an economic and political union which brings peace into the Europe. Europe was not ever that peaceful and that is thanks to the union. European identity is a very vast topic and everybody understands it and feels it in a

I would now like to raise the question " why is the US so keen on its relationship with the European Union, why is there a great deal of involvement and cooperation between them? I think the answer to this question goes back to the fact stated in the beginning: the European Union is a potential threat, competitor or partner to the US. By keeping a strong relationship with the European Union, the US is trying to eliminate the threat and competition and strengthen the partnership.

Closer co-operation with all the EU and a possible accession to the community had been a common strategic fundamental for people and European procedures vis-à-vis Turkey, the Western Balkan countries as well as for the Far eastern partners. Besides NATO, the EU became the most robust institutional link in transatlantic community -- a well acknowledged fact both in Brussels and Washington. The EU – and a few of its new member states – also developed a substantial coercive authority, because of the dominance in unusual trade, the area economic subsidies and within other locations traditionally subscribed to soft power. Judging by these instruments, as well as increased global weight, the EU could acquire a robust influence and a institutional credibility in its broad local community.

People have created unions many times but not all of them were successful, specifically when we consider alliances among number of countries with different economics, political systems and culture. For instance, last century brought both the biggest collapse and the most promising union in the modern history. Although U.S.S.R has disappeared from geographical maps, some of its members joined another alliance. The European Union (EU) is an economic and political partnership that united 28 countries on the European part of Eurasia and represents a unique form of cooperation among members today.

In order to elaborate on the statement above, one has to become familiar with the process of European Integration; therefore I would first like to show a quick overview of the history of the EU. After the WWII it has become clear that the best possible way to reinstate Europe’s leading position in the global political and economic arena was through some form of mutual cooperation amongst the leading European nations. In 1950 the French foreign affairs minister developed the plan of a possible European Integration. The Shuman-plan was to

The European Union (EU), as a supranational organization, has increased its stock of importance within the international realm through increased integration. Sector after sector has been targeted in attempts to create a more perfect union where all European member states are represented equally. That quest for deeper integration ultimately brought the founders of the EU at the threshold of defense and foreign policy. No one knows for sure the collective direction of the EU, only to say that the goals of the organization tends towards creating a federal state. That would mean that the EU would be the voice over all pertinent matters including foreign and security policy. It also happens to be that those two areas are held in high regard by

The European Union was created by the idea and hope for unity and integrity. However, as it enlarges to 28 countries, many problems arise. The Union 's inability to find its place in the divided and dynamical modern world leads to it having more of a supportive role to greater powers as Russia and the US. The countries within it are severely divided and unable to reach a common strategy concerning major issues and if they not resolve this lack of coherence, the EU risks to be pushed in the sidelines and to lose its international reputation as a consolidated unity.

Instances of the increase of power of the EU’s institutions are diverse. For instance, the EU has rendered the unanimity that member

The European Union (EU) was established in order to prevent the horrors of modern warfare, experienced by most of Europe during the World Wars of the 20th century, from ever ensuing again, by aiming to create an environment of trust with the countries of Europe cooperating in areas such as commerce, research and trade (Adams, 2001). The EU has evolved into an economic, trade, political and monetary alliance between twenty-eight European Member States. While not all Member States are in monetary union (i.e. share the currency of the euro), those that are form the ‘Euro-zone’ (Dinan, 2006). The EU can pass a number of types of legislation, with a regulation, act, or law, being the most powerful. Its ‘tricameral’ (European Union, 2007)

The European Union is an organization unlike any other which includes an economic and political union between many different countries in Europe. It operates as a single institution with one foreign policy although it is composed of 28 individual countries with their own foreign policies. This paper, therefore, seeks to understand the institutional organization of the European Union in regards to foreign policy as well as provide an analysis of the actions the EU takes in its diplomacy.

The European union (EU) is an economic and political partnership involving partnership of 28 European countries (Austria , belguim ,Bulgaria , Croatia ,Cyprus , Czech republic ,Denmark ,Estonia ,finland ,france ,germany ,Greece ,hungary ,Ireland ,Italy,Latvia ,Lithuania ,Luxembourg ,malta ,Netherlands ,Poland ,Portugal ,Romania ,Slovakia ,slovennia ,spain ,Sweden ,united kingdom) which began after world war 2. The main idea of the union was that countries which trade together are most likely avoid going to war with each other.