Why the European union? Jofre Cabrera, Marc Conde, Xiao Bin,
ArnauTharrats
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Peace Before, the idea of the European union was an unthinkable
idea for the large part of the inhabitants thereof. But because of
the two world wars that arose during the first half of the
twentieth century, European nations were willing to join forces and
put aside all rivalry. Uniting what they used materials for
creating weapons in the war, as was the coal and steel.
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Unification of Europe After the creation of the European union
and the fall of the Berlin Wall helped the unification of Germany.
In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed and the countries that submitted
were finally could be free to choose their future. And so countries
began to join the European union.
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Security The European union has to work to support countries
having across their borders safe. The interior and exterior
security are united in one concept. To combat terrorism and
organized gangs, all European countries unoin l have to work very
closely.
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Economic and social solidarity European countries account for
an ever smaller percentage of the world population. They must
therefore continue pulling together if they want to maintain
economic growth and compete on the world stage with other major
economies. No country in the EU is this major European competition
space must also be balanced with solidarity at European level and
benefit from the European peoples.
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when there are floods or other natural disasters, part of the
aid they receive borne by the EU budget. To improve transport
infrastructure (such as networks expand highways ), we can provide
access to outlying regions and promoting trans-European trade we
can use money from the EU budget and loans from the Bank European
Investment (EIB ).
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Europes post-industrial societies are becoming increasingly
complex. Standard of living have risen steadily, but there are
still significant gaps between rich and poor It is important for EU
countries to work together to remove these problems Need to work
together many EU activities that help promote the peculiarities and
regional diversity of traditions and cultures of Europe all EU
countries benefit Economic, social, technological, commercial and
political cost is much higher than if its member states had to act
individually. The fact act in concert with the unique voice of the
European Union EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY AND DIVERSITY
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How does the EU exercise this influence? plays a decisive role
in international negotiations, such as those at between one hundred
and fifty -three countries belonging to the World Trade
Organization ( WTO) or in conferences United Nations climate change
EU adopts a clear position on sensitive issues affecting the
ordinary people The EU remains at the forefront of global efforts
to tackle global warming. In December 2008 it unilaterally
committed itself to a 20 % cut in greenhouse gas emissions by
2020.
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Values: The EU wishes to promote humanitarian and progressive
values. The people cannot be met simply by market forces. The
european people, cherist their rich heritageof vlues, incluse a
belife in human rights, social solidarity, free Enterprise, a fai
distribation of the fruits of economy grow... The Charter of
Fundamental Rights of the European Union was proclaimed in Nice in
December 2000. The Charter sets out all the rights recognised today
by the EUs member states and their citizens.