EU european union, world war ii, politics, geopolitics, europe, european countries
In his declaration of May 1950, in the aftermath of World War II, Robert Schumann emphasized the goal of peace that the European Union (EU) has to play in European politics. Throughout its history, the EU evolved and gained more and more power over several aspects of our lives. The EU that we are questioning is the EU in its current form, composed of 27 states and after the Maastricht treaty of 1992.
In this essay, we will ask ourselves if the EU is still relevant today. More precisely, we will highlight the good aspects but also the downsides of the EU for the different nations that are part of it.
[...] The obvious one is the question of state sovereignty. The more the EU interacts in our daily life, the less the state has sovereignty. According to the french jurist Guy Carcassone, approximately 80% of our law comes from UE (by directives mostly). Given that every state has its own interest, the uniformisation of politics made by the EU, a supra-national structure, can bring some interrogations. Some reforms can be productive for the people of one country and not the other. [...]
[...] The creation of the European central bank in Frankfurt reinforced the links with countries part of the organization. Because of the common currency, the EU possesses a strong interior market and it helps the smaller countries of the organization in their economy. The EU defends democracy. We have seen it recently when Poland and Hungary tried, by reforming their interior judiciary system, to undermine the legality of their jurisdictional institutions. These countries were sanctioned for not respecting the EU Constitution. [...]
[...] Is the European Union still relevant nowadays? In his declaration of May 1950, in the aftermath of World War II, Robert Schumann emphasized the goal of peace that the European Union has to play in European politics. Throughout its history, the EU evolved and gained more and more power over several aspects of our lives. The EU that we are questioning is the EU in its current form, composed of 27 states and after the Maastricht treaty of 1992. In this essay, we will ask ourselves if the EU is still relevant today. [...]
[...] It is included in the European treaties. Moreover, some countries are critical at the choices of allocation of the common fund of the EU. The countries who contribute less to this fund get the biggest part of it (Hungary for instance). To conclude, we have seen the different aspects of the EU, good ones and bad ones. It is obviously still a relevant and important organization for the countries who composed it. But, when we look at it closer, we can see that the EU needs to be reformed. [...]
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