WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION?

p European Union and REASONS FOR ITS ORIGIN

S .NO HEADING PAGE NO 1 INTRODUCTION : 3

2 ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN UNION : 4

3 EVALUTION OF EUROPEAN UNION CONSTITUTION : 8

4 FINANCE : 11

5 EXTERNAL RELATIONS : 11

6 EU-FOREIGN POLICY : 14

7 CONCLUSION : 15

8 BIBILIOGRAPHY 17 1 . INTRODUCTION

The birth of the European Union (EU ) may be traced to establishment of European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC ) on 18 April , 1951 through the treaty of Paris . The main aim of the treaty was to deter the risk

of future anomalies between Germany and France by creating a longstanding cooperation in the production of Coal and the manufacture of steel . The difference between Germany and France earlier had resulted in European war in 1870 and later during the First World War between 1914 and 1918 To avoid such catastrophic war in future , a solution was offered so as to link their economies which would not allow them to confront again . As the result of economic linkage between fifteen countries ,which is known as European Union now ,which obviously includes France and Germany , it is inconceivable now that a war should ever break out due to their economical interlinks . This is one the main advantage of creation of European Union . After signing ECSC in 1951 , both Germany and France invited other Western European countries such as Italy , Belgium Luxembourg and the Netherlands . Thus the creation of ECSC was considered by these countries , an opportunity to link their own economies to those of Western Europe 's two giant nations while at the same time helping to avoid war between them

Jean Monnet , an economist , political thinker and a business man who devoted all his time after the second war for the creation of solidarity economic of European countries which he termed it as United States of Europe . During 1958 , European Economic Community was established to help the individual countries to hand over the important aspects of their management in accordance with the directives issued by their High Authority ' and it consisted nine member countries , which will hold office for six years . This authority had the privilege to decide on price and levels of production on common matters like Coal

2 . ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN UNION

With the signing of Maastricht Treaty ' in February1992 , the concept European Union ' came into existence and Union then consisted of twelve members - Denmark ,Belgium ,Portugal , France , Italy , Ireland Netherlands Luxembourg , Spain , Germany , Luxembourg and United Kingdom Finland , Austria and Sweden joined the EU in 1995 . As of now , EU consists of twenty five members with the following new members joined during 2004- Malta , Cyprus , Estonia ,Czech Republic , Hungary Lithuania , Latvia , Slovakia ,Polland and Slovenia . Further , during 2007 Bulgaria and Romania are likely to join the EU . During January 2002 EU 's common currency namely EURO ' which will be managed by European Central bank was introduced which substituted national currencies of twelve member states of EU

EU is distinct from other entities like NATO or UN as it is a body...