European Union Dinan

The European Union was initially created with the short term aim of ending wars and hostility in Europe, and to provide the foundation for future European economical and political integration (Dinan 2004. Based on the Schuman plan, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg these six countries signed a treaty to run their heavy industries, coal and steel under a common management (The European Coal and Steel Community). According to Dinan (2004) the ECSC was an imaginative response to the challenge of Germany’s swift economic recovery at a time of tense East-West conflict. Dinan (2004:6) goes on to claim that ‘the coalescence of...

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