Table Of Contents
1. History of the European Union
2. The Netherlands and Europe
3. Positive rated topics by Dutch people
4. Negative feelings towards European Union
5. Advantages and disadvantages of the European Union
6. The European Policy from the Netherlands in the coming years
7. Sources
History of the European Union
Nowadays the European Union contains 27 members and is created as a political and economic community throughout Europe. There were some reasons to start to work together, but it took quite a long time till the final form and name.
After WWII in the late 1940s the main players in the world decided that a situation like the war, should never happen again and they should find a way to exclude the change of a war.
The countries: France, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and the Netherlands were unified and founded in 1952 the European Coal and Steel Community. Today these countries are still seen as the founders of the ‘European Union’
In 1957 was the next step in the way to the European Union. The Cold War, protest and conflicts between western and Eastern Europe European Union at start 1952
showed the need further Unification. The results of these negotiations was the European Economic community, clearified in the treaty or Rome. Within the countries of the community was free travelling possible for people and products. Through the years more and more countries entered the European Economic Community.
In the end of the 1980s Europe was almost unified, the single European Act was signed in 1987, to create one single market for all the trade. With the breakdown of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the last border between east and west was gone, and they began to create a united Europe.
European Union in 1992
The final shape of the European Union
With the interconnection between the