25 June 2011
European Union: Peril or Panacea?
The European Union (EU) is a collective of twenty-seven countries who came together at the end of the Second World War in the pursuit of peace and cooperation. Since joining together, the European Union has helped to bring about just over half a century of “peace, stability and prosperity.” (Europa, 2011). The Union’s main focus is to unify Europe and to “make war unthinkable and materially impossible” (Schuman, 1949) as discussed by the then French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman in his proposal to form a ‘supranational’ community which became the EU. Following the horrors of the First and ...
