How the EU Works … and sometimes doesn’t (EUW)
After WW2 Europe was in ruins with the Cold War looming. Out of the ashes came, first, the EEC and latterly the EU. It is now a gargantuan structure (that some typecast as the United States of Europe), one that is now headed into the choppy waters of Brexit, stagflation and worrying threats from China and the Trump presidency.
We sometimes forget it is now well over 60 years old. It is showing signs of wear and wrong moves. It melds together the external economies of 27 countries, opening them up to frictionless trade along with encouraging a visionary human rights record. It promotes regional development and uses, largely, a single currency. It has a Commission and a Parliament. It has been wasteful, bureaucratic and monolithic. We will look at how it is meant to run and how it actually does run in increasingly demanding times.
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