the EU
...tion and more powerful as a whole. The major difficulty to this is going to be the cultural differences between the countries themselves. This could lead different countries to feel as if they have to defend their cultures from attacks and could result in a total loss for this union. The start of the European Coal and Steel Community was proposed by the foreign minister of France, Robert Schuman and consisted of six nations – Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The reason for this unification was to group together all of their coal and steel into a joint market. In years following, Rome Treaties established the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, which extended this common market to all areas of the economies of these nations. The European Union is an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. The European Union is a result of an effort to build a more unified Europe. Fifty years ...