The European Union And The Treaty Of Western And Eastern European Countries Since The End Of The Cold War

Since 1950 European Union (EU) was created it has promoted peace, prosperity and values among the member nations and its neighbouring countries. EU’s influential tools, has helped transform many European states into functioning democracies and prosperous countries. EU’s membership has grown from 6 to 28 countries (Enlargement, 2014), satisfying a historic vow to integrate the continent bringing in most states of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by peaceful ideals.EU has anticipated the enlargement as an extraordinary opportunity to endorse political strength and economic success in Europe. EU’s extension policy is open to any European state that fulfils the EU’s political and financial criteria for membership; still the political process of inclusion of new state requires a unanimous agreement from all the existing 28 member states. Europe is considered to be more flourishing and safer place due to the promotion of democracy, anti-corruption policy and the single market policy.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union 1991 many changes have been brought to Europe. After the fall of the Soviet Union newly formed countries of Eastern Europe found themselves brought into a new era, many of the people had relied on the Soviet Union’s system of socialism to help them with every detail of their lives and to dictate their lives but with this newfound freedom citizens had many changes forced upon them. All they once knew had been taken away so suddenly most didn’t know what to do with themselves. The Government, Economy and Marxist Idealism had all fallen with the Soviet Union. Citizens had no choice but to move on with their new lives because it was as their past lives

Firstly, it is going to look at how post-war integration started through the prevention of war and to create peace throughout the European States. Secondly this essay will discuss the economic changes and influence it had on creating a political union. Then it will discuss how this created political unity along with how it affected integration and finally created the European Union. While lastly coming to a final conclusion as to what motivated integration after the war.

For the integration, the intersection of the economic need, life style of the people, and size of the economy must be same. Due to inappropriate way and lack of proper political integration by countries and surge in the national feeling over the common economic goal of the region has adversely impacted the area. European unions is comprised of many countries which include different countries which are in different stage of their economic development

This essentially led to the division of Europe becoming Western and Eastern Europe. Before the Cold War Europe was a much unified country.

This article reviews Albania’s association with the EU from the 1990’s to 2000. Argument is that Albania is one of the most under-developed countries in Europe and will face

Although Romania was originally a part of the Ottoman Empire, several principalities gained their autonomy and then united to join the Axis powers. The greatest impact on Romanian people came from Soviet occupation of the Eastern bloc, which caused an establishment of communism as the main government ideology and led to slow economic growth during the 20th century, a time of rapid industrialization and growth for many nations across the globe. Today, Romania is a member of both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU). Situated between Bulgaria and Ukraine, it is home to one of the sputtering economies in the region, which is based on manufacture of industrial-capacity machinery and chemicals to other trade partners such as Germany and Italy. Romania also boasts one of the largest labor forces in the world. One major issue with Romania is its problem with drugs, as it serves as a conduit for laundering through government officials and financial institutions.

The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 was an unprecedented possibility for the former Soviet satellites to join the EU. The EU offered a great possibility for economic prosperity by promoting free markets and common currency, which would guarantee economic stability so desperately needed in the poor post-authoritarian states. Through various policies and initiatives EU institutions

The Czech Republic became a member of the European Union (EU) on May 1, 2004. Through the course of the accession process, most barriers to trade in industrial goods with the EU have been eliminated. The process of accession had a positive impact on reform in the Czech Republic, and implementation of EU directives and regulations continues. The U.S. Department of Commerce Country Commercial Guide for the Czech Republic summarizes the economic trends and outlook this way:

As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, new independent states were emerged and it was the time for the European Union (EU) to stretch towards its eastern neighbor countries in order to build relationships and bring them closer to the EU by promoting democracy. Alongside with the democratization of non-western countries, the primary goals of the EU was to establish a political community, to deepen and strengthen free trade zones, and as well as to abolish the visa regime within those eastern countries. In

As one of the most influential transnational organizations, the European Union is very strict towards candidate countries which aim to join it and they are required to meet vast range of criteria. In some cases, even after the approval and accession of a particular country, there are still systems to be reshaped and areas to be reformed which is being closely monitored by the European Union and reports are made on the progress of the respective state. The example which will be taken into consideration is the one of Bulgaria and Romania, as two of the more recent European Union members. Particular attention will be paid to judicial reforms, fighting organized crime and corruption. “Since the EU has no “European” models to offer, it has relied upon the models in old member States. The entrepreneurial strategies of such states have been a key factor in the process of policy transfer toward Central and Eastern European countries”. (Piana, 2007) In the case of Bulgaria and Romania, the French model was used, as the French catalogue of courses offered to judges and prosecutors was imitated in Bulgaria and Romania. An analysis of the process, shows that “even if the French catalogue of courses has been almost entirely imitated, the French organizational model has been imitated only where (1) a domestic actor has been able to

Czech Republic has gone through two major transformations in less than eleven years. In 1993, what was formerly known as Czechoslovakia, split into two separate countries. Both Czech Republic and Slovakia joined the European Union in 2004 along with eight other nations. Two EU policy issues that affected or continue to affect Czech Republic were the adoption of the euro and ratification of the Lisbon Treaty of 2009. Czech Republic’s president is anti-EU and this plays a significant role in showing that it is important who is in power.

For as long as the European Union has been a supranational institution, there have been several crises which has caused the EU trouble. The current issues of the EU are ones which have forced the EU to bend, but not completely break. The issues of Brexit and the current human rights violations in Hungary are two current issues which have caused alarm across all 28 member states. Lithuania, a relatively small Baltic nation, has been a stable member state since its inception to the EU in 2004. Lithuania, along with the other Baltic States, has consistently treated to make the EU an institution of equality and fairness for all member states. However, Brexit and the current Hungarian issues have put additional strain on Lithuania and the

The joining of Romania into European Union is a new hot issue to the European economists. European communities become under a big umbrella unitedly to associate one another in their daily life and develop economy jointly. Where Romania was a communist country and change itself a revolutionary change and agreed to cooperate to the European social associations. After 2007, by joining in European Union, Romania become a greatest opportunist state among the East European countries.

“From time to time it is worth reminding ourselves why twenty-seven European nation states have come together voluntarily to form the partnership that is the European Union.” 1