European Union

However, the United Kingdom has throughout its tenure in the European Economic Community and European Union maintained certain level of autonomy from Continental Europe. For example, the United Kingdom has chosen to opt out of both the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the Schengen Area. Nonetheless, the most notable British exemption from the rest of European Union is its absence from the Eurozone. Of the EU nation’s currently not in the Eurozone only Denmark and the…

The UK has been a part of the European Union since 1993, but is it time for the partnership to come to an end? The EU was created on November 1, 1993, and was created to end all of the wars with the neighboring countries. In order to try to end the wars, the EU was formed to be a single market which permits people and goods to freely move within the partnered countries. England has to consider all of the reasons why they should stay in the EU, why they should leave, and it would look like if…

European integration led to the empowerment of its other institutions, the Court of justice of the European Union (CJEU) as a result has taken an essential active role in the European Union by forming the Union’s legal order. Initially, the European Union envisaged as an international organisational for the purposes for economic and political interest has further developed in which the courts have permitted individuals to enforce rights under European Union law in national courts. Although the…

Many Africans are migrating to the European Union for economic reasons. These Africans are moving to Europe because of the struggling economic status of their home countries. They choose the EU because of the high wealth and opportunity it offers; this is causing a rise in population for the EU and an increase of GDP for African countries. Africa is statistically one of the poorest places on Earth, according to Document #3 most African countries rank in the mid to higher 100’s for the Earth’s…

The European Union is increasingly facing existential crisis, both old and new. The potential exit of Greece and Britain are old and yet potent risks to the integrity of the union. The huge influx of Middle Eastern refugees and the recent Islamic terrorist attack in Paris have posed new threat to the grand European project. However, such inconveniences should not be allowed to undermine the grand European project, which has delivered peace and prosperity to the continent for 70 years. Although…

The European Union represents an “economic and political partnership between 28 European countries” (European Union, 2015). The EU is characterised as a single market where the movements of goods, services and labour are free between countries. However, the issue of the PIIGs (Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Greece) destabilised and challenged this union. As it created financial contagion within the economies, and lead to Britain and other members contributing to bailout funds for these debt ridden…

The European Union and North American Free Trade Agreement The European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are two regional trade agreements that promote the trade of goods, people, and services across borders. Both of these regional trade agreements help their member regions reduce or eliminate trade restrictions, quotas, and tariffs. By implementing regional trade agreements, the member regions can improve their economy and promote trade growth throughout the…

reasons as to why the relationship between turkey and European Union is regarded to be problematic . These problems are related to turkey’s geographic location, democratic nature, economic stability, as well as the cultural and historical background of the country. Basically, as far as geography is concerned, Turkey is considered to be in Asia, hence cannot be a European Union member. Turkey is also underdeveloped, hence being a member of European Union would result to financial constraint on EU…

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The European Union is able to pass and govern laws, most of which are the same within most countries which are in the European Union. The European Union also creates a platform for European Countries to trade, export and import their goods into each other’s country without any difficulties which then is able to boost a countries economy as their might be a demand of that certain product within that country. The European Union is able to free movement across Europe…