European Integration

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Living and tolerating one another is one of the problems that is being faced in this world most especially when it comes to the issue of ethnicity , nationality e .t .c . This has really caused a problem when talking about economic social class transcending blood ties

It is in view of this that the European continent immediately after the World War I formed a coalition that will kick against all ethnic /national and class based conflict displayed during the war

European Integration can therefore be defined as the process of

br political , economic (and in some cases social and cultural ) integration of European States including some states that are partly in Europe . For centuries , there have been some form of integration , but presently in the Europe , the dominant force is the European Union . Integration and enlargement of the European Union are major issues in the politics of Europe , both at home and national level

Looking at the impact of the European Union (EU , this is a supranational and intergovernmental union of 27 States in Europe . It was established in 1992 by the Treaty of European union ( The Maastricht Treaty , and is the defacto-successor to the six member European Economic Community (EEC ) founded in 1957 . The EU is the current stage of a continuing open-ended process of European Integration . The EU is the largest economic entity and one of the largest political entities in the world with 493 million people . In to bring a common European identity , the Union operates a single market with a common trade policy a common agriculture and a regional policy to assist power regions . It introduced a single currency , the Euro which is adopted by 13 member States so that they could all be of one accord

In for economic social class to transcend blood ties , the EU established important bodies which include the European Commission , the Council of the European Union , the European Council , the European Central Bank , the European Court of Justice and the European Parliament

To be of one voice , citizens of EU member States are also EU citizens . They directly elect the European parliament , once every year five years . They can live , travel , work and invest in other member States . And to make things easier , passport control and customs checks at most internal boarders were abolished by the Schengen Agreement

The European Union evolved from a Western European trade body into the supranational and the intergovernmental body that it is today After the Second World War , an impetus grew in Western Europe for institutional forms of cooperation between states , driven by the determination to rebuild Europe and eliminate the possibility of another world war which could be caused by tribal sentiments

In the year 1946 , Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe ' without the inclusion of the U .K . On May 9 , 1950 , the French Foreign Minister , Robert Schuman presented a proposal for the joint management of France 's and West Germany 's coal and steel industries...