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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.