European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union. Although it has 27 member states now, it was first formed with 6 countries. After World War II, different unions were established such as European Coal and Steal Community, European Atomic Energy Community and European Economic Community. Then these communities were united as European Community. After a while European Community’s name was changed as Eurepean Union. However, what was the purpose of the participant countries’ aim for establishing this union? There are indeed main causes of forming this union such as reverting back their old economic situations after the World War II and combining their powers.

In the Europe two important wars took place between 1908 and 1945. In these wars both European countries and the other countries were affected in terms of economy. Economic crises took place in these countries during these years and due to the fact that they decided to form a union to remove the effects of the wars in a veloce way. Thus, they did not have to pay taxes for the products that they imported and exported and this situation faciliated their reconstructions.

The second cause of establishing the European Union is being more powerful. In other words, the European countries wanted to advance not only in economoy but also in politic and social life. Today, America is dominant in the world and The European Union stand against the America. Because of the power of America, the European countries wanted to get rid of the pressure of America and wanted not only created their wealthes and capitals but also improved them.

After looking at two main causes of establishing the European Union namely, the desire of Eurpeon countries to revert back to their old economies and combining their powers, now let’s look at its two main effects which are benefiting from education and traveling without visas.

The first effect of the European Union on its participants is education. Erasmus Programme became valid in 1987 and since then 1.5 million students have benefited from it. Thanks to that programme, so many students can go other European countries for education without any restriction. They can improve themselves in terms of language. In addition to this, students can also make use of the facilities that the country presents to develop themselves.

The second effect is traveling without visas. The European countries’ citizens can travel through Europe without any restriction. They can also experience new cultures and expand their knowledge by doing sightseeings. Thus, people can improve themselves by traveling. They can also interact with the natives of the country that they go.

To sum up, after looking at these causes and effects, it is obvious that advantages of being in European Union is an undeniable fact. We can think the Europe as a country and the European countries as cities because the Eurepean countries are under the same roof. Being in a union facilitates people’s life styles in terms of both education and traveling. I believe that everybody wants to live in a country which belongs to a union.