What is the actual purpose for the european union these days?

Question

I t is nomially a trade bloc,butit sometimes thinks(or more precisely the german-french core) of itself as a pontential rival to American global dominance.What do U people think?

Answer 1

it is an economic trading bloc. been very succesfull so far too. the Euro is up 34% over the dollar in the past five years.

The USA, and p bush in particular are trying to do the same thing in the Americas. There is a bill right now, in the congress, to merge with Canada and Mexico into a trading bloc. NAFTA was the precursor to a more solid agreement. Witness the new highway being planned that would run straight from Mexico, up to the heartland and the issuance of drivers licenses to mexican truck drivers.

it is all bad. it is all an effort to break down independence and nationalism.

welcome to the one world order. :(

Answer 2

Protecting regional identity, prosperity, justice, peace, stability, transparency, progressive reform, protect the environment... It is doing the job, your national governments are not doing. And if it was allowed by those same national governments to gain a supranational status, it could certainly do a much finer job!!!

Answer 3

That's still its main purpose, but it is also aimed and further intergration to make it easier to do business and to move freely through the countries.

And I swear to God Almighty, the EU is not eroding national identities.  There is no evidence.  In fact it is helping promoting it.  For example they have just declared Irish as an official language of the EU, giving it even more credence and would surely help in a revival of the language.  It may be they are promoting smaller nations identities and rebalancing the disproportionate strength of the larger nations identities i.e France, UK and Germany.

Answer 4

So far it's been to erase the Europeans nations' national identities.