The European Union And Its Impending Decline

The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 different countries. It consists of about half a billion citizens, and its combined economy represents about 20 percent of the world’s total economy (Briney, 2015). Today The European Union works as a single market, with free movement of people, goods and services from one country to another. There is a standard system of laws to be followed, and since 1999 many countries share a single currency called the Euro (Europa.eu, 2015). This essay will explore the background history of the European Union and the benefits and drawbacks of the European Union.

The European migrant crisis began in 2015 when there was an influx of refugees coming into the European Union through southern European countries and by way of the Mediterranean Sea. An extremely large portion of these refugees came from Syria and Iraq. One of the leading causes of the mass migration was war and unrest and the consequent rise of insurgency groups such as ISIS within these people’s home countries. As their homes and cities have become unfit to live in any longer, people have been driven to seek asylum in European countries. Greece and other southern European countries like

The European Union (EU) has introduced and enacted a privacy law that protects all of its member countries’ citizens from both governmental and commercial misuse of citizens’ personal data. Meanwhile, the U.S. has been busy with protecting its businesses (e.g. passing laws such as DMCA, et. al.). Of course, that is not to say that no steps toward achieving a better privacy have been made by the U.S.

Part of the exceptional nature of the EU stems from the notion that nothing like it has ever been attempted successfully before. The European Union is an international institution with a single market and shared currency. It strives to maintain singular goals and make its way towards being an “ever closer union”. Today, the European Union has expanded to include twenty-eight member countries with an influence that reaches every continent. This institution has had an impressive history, but it has reached a point of concern. The golden years which held high hopes of a united supranational Union are long over. The EU faces destructive problems today, which could ultimately end their impressive era of cooperation. The Union has come

Since 1973 when the British first joined the European Union their membership has been a controversial issue. When conservatives in the United Kingdom won the general election in 2015, their election manifesto promised to hold a referendum on whether or not the United Kingdom should stay or leave the European Union. The referendum also referred to as “Brexit” is scheduled to take place by the end of 2017. The United Kingdom initially joined the union to be part of the common market for the purpose of trade and to develop international relationships. The main argument for those who are pro Brexit is that being part of the European Union is too costly for the United Kingdom, that the EU has grown to large, has interfered to far into

In this paper, we show just how different Internet privacy protection is in the U.S. relative to the EU and examine a significant, proposed change in U.S. privacy law.

Italy’s requests for assistance with Mare Nostrum have got nowhere. Greece spent €63m in 2013 to prevent illegal immigration; just €3m came from Europe’s border agencies. The Schengen agreement enshrines the responsibility of the littoral states. The Dublin regulation, a building block of Schengen, says that the first EU state where a migrant arrives, his finger prints are stored or an asylum claim is made is responsible for the asylum claim. If a migrant is processed in Greece, then he is Greece’s problem.

Internet service providers, depending on the state in which they are located, have different policies regarding the collection and storing of personal information or data of their subscribed users. In the United States of America there are many legislative proposals such as “Do not track me online act of 2011” or “Do not track kids act of 2011”, such proposals were shaken by the lack of a strong basis and sustainability. Everything changed in 201222, when the security control and the quality of personal data protection have been passed on both to the consumer's concern and to the concern of search engine companies. The report of the Federal Commission states that through this protection, the consumer will choose if he wants his information to be used by third parties. This report was subsequently integrated into consumer privacy law, a report proposed by US President Barack Obama23. Giants such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or Mozilla will offer the user the ability to choose whether he wants his data to be used by other companies. The only problem with this proposal is that there is no agent or organization applying this measure, the

The European refugee crisis encompasses the flight of millions of refugees escaping violence in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asian countries. The surging tide of refugees has created a predicament among countries where the movement of people is unrestricted. Seeking asylum, they risk their lives on arduous journeys through Turkey and across the Mediterranean to Greece, from where they enter other countries, the most popular destinations being Germany, Sweden, France, and Italy. As countries receiving these immigrants scramble to provide basic necessities, European governments still struggle to propose a suitable solution for resettlement.

The defining moment in dismantling digital data privacy, in the United States specifically, was a necessitated response to prevent future terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11. However, the responses of European governments and the United States differed dramatically. The EU member states focused on hardening their perceived targets. Conversely, the US focus

An overwhelming 11 million Syrian refugees have been displaced due to war and conflict that continues into today, from the country Syria. Many Syrian refugees, left with a lack of necessary resources as well as being in the face of danger have left to close and distant countries that may provide the humanitarian aid they need. These countries most of which from the European region are left with challenges but also benefits that can arise due to the abundance of fleeing refugees. One country in particular, Greece, is experiencing this. The articles,” Euronews; Greece’s Economic Boost From Refugee Aid, FEE; 4 Selfish Reasons To Take In Refugees, BBC; What’s Going On With Greece and Its Economy, and Breitbart; Tensions Rise In Italy Over What

Turkey is left with a high number of refugees all to alleviate Greece's burden. Greece, already being in economic turmoil is aided by the deal through its attempts to pay Turkey to keep quiet about retaining an influx of refugees-refugees who are not always kept in the best conditions. A paradox that can be found in the EU-Turkey deal is that the EU tries to promote a certain standard of rights for refugees and supports human rights efforts by the UN, yet the practice of the deal itself is not up to those standards (Collett, 2016). This deal affects the refoulement of refugees by prematurely deciding that anyone who walks through Turkey, which is not a part of the European Union, must return to Turkey. By evoking this part of the deal, the EU is spared having to invest in refugees-a kind of out of sight, out of mind mentality. However, Turkey must accommodate the growing number of asylum seekers and manage its own internal issues. Ultimately this does not discourage people who still try to make it to

"Europe must prevent Greece from becoming an out-and-out catastrophe and make sure that the same fiscal 'remedy' is not applied to other weak economies" -- Franziska Brantner

The European Union (EU) is not a typical international organization. The mix of intergovernmental and supranational institutions makes the EU a unique, distinctive political, and economic system. As Europe has spiraled from one crisis to the next, difficult discussions haves arisen about how much more power should be delegated to Brussels. Even though the EU advocates for “ever closer union”, through increased integration, states are becoming hesitant to relinquish power to the EU. This is due to the fact that state sovereignty has become threatened; it is being compromised by a combination of the lack of effective democratic institutions and the loss of states have lost control of law-making to legislation power to EU institutions. Euroenthuthiasts argue that state sovereignty is enhanced, not threatened, by reallocating power to EU institutions. However, Eurosceptics dispute that too much control has seceded to the EU making is a threat to state sovereignty. My position aligns with Eurosceptics, for the EU has weakened state sovereignty do to increased centralization of power in EU institutions that lack legitimacy. The European Project has obtained a copious amount of jurisdiction from states and eroded a basic fundamental freedom of the modern state- sovereignty. Since the EU has with goals to deepen and widen integration it’s clear that forfeiting state sovereignty will only intensify. My essay will start with a brief history of the European Union and a short

The European Union is a political community constituted as an international organization whose aim is to promote integration and a common government of the European people and countries. According to the Article 3 of the European Union Treaty, Union’s aim is to promote peace, its values and the well-being of its peoples. It is based on the values of freedom, democracy, equality, law enforcement and respect for human rights and dignity.