The European Union: The positive and negative aspects

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The European Union was originally created by two enemies, who decided to reconcile and build a trading cooperation. That is the reason why they first created a cooperation of the steal and coal industries in 1950, right after WWII. They understood that the best way to be at peace with one another was to create some sort of trading relation between them. The EU member countries will never fight against each other because EU is like one big country.

E.U. citizens are allowed to travel and work anywhere they want in the EU. Businesses can expand to other countries much more easily and have a broader selection of talented workers to choose from. A French company who wants to expand to Spain can easily find and hire a Spanish worker to come and work in France. It is good also good for EU workers because they can have much more job opportunities. Students can also go study in other countries much more easily.

In the EU, it is very easy for businesses to expand their activity to other countries because there are practically no trade barriers between them. The UE wanted to minimize the taxes and restrictions to make it easier for EU businesses to expand and trade with one another. The EU is basically one large free and open market.

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[...] The European Union: The positive and negative aspects In this document we're going to study all the different aspects of the European Union. We will see and discuss why some people are for it and why others are against it. The positive aspects The European Union was originally created by two enemies, who decided to reconcile and build a trading cooperation. That is the reason why they first created a cooperation of the steal and coal industries in 1950, right after WWII. [...]

[...] The European Community was created as an economic organization. However, it has now expanded so much that it covers a lot of different areas where I would be better for member countries to make their own decisions. On environmental issues for example, EU can impose some regulations to its member countries but those regulations could be negative for some of the member's economies that can't afford to make sacrifices for environmental purposes. The power of EU has now extended to some traditionally national policy areas with the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Justice and Home Affaires Policy (JHA). [...]

[...] often does things based on the principle of supranationalism. In order for it to work, member states have to agree to hand over sovereignty to EU. Many think that certain areas like defense, taxation or currency should not be handled over to a supranational body because it would undermine the nation state. The EU is not as effective at managing many policy areas, as could do nation states. The member countries are too different to be able to address a unique policy for every one of them. [...]

[...] People no longer have to worry about the exchange rate of their currency when they trade or travel to another country. Another positive aspect of the European Union is the fact that wealthy countries have to help the poor ones. When something is wrong with one of its members, the other countries have the duty to help him. EU members had to help Greece by giving them a lot of money that came from the wealthy countries. Solidarity between member countries is a big part of the EU cooperation. The negative aspects The European Union is too expensive to maintain. [...]