Why are Europeans always striving for unification ?

Question

Why are Europeans always striving for unification ?

Answer 1

Because we'd rather be unified than at war, as we pretty much were throughout the last millennium.

Moreover, it has a great deal of economic benefits.

Personally I believe all humanity should strive toward unification and less boundaries between one-another.

Answer 2

Their main goal is to create an economy that matches or overtakes the US in size....with size of economy comes the ability to control world policy

Answer 3

The government and people sometimes fail to see the global advantages while the perception of the cost and the protection of special interests is local.

Answer 4

2 reasons they want an economy like the us and they tied of little Hitlers, Mussolini, and Stalins poping up all over the place.

Answer 5

leaders in the eu cant agree on which toilet paper to use,,, true

Answer 6

But their people's opinion (in latest stats) are against striving for unification, well except Turks who want to join other's culture that's not same as their culture and striving for it

Answer 7

Because they're smart & they have learned.

"Together we conquer, divided we fall".

Answer 8

Mainly because of French anti-Americanism. As an earlier poster said, they want to create an economy to rival USA.

Britain would be better off out of the EU, or else the EU should forget political unification and return to being a common market only.

Answer 9

Europeans wanted to unite in order to have a strong economic bloc against the US and other superpowers.

Answer 10

to be agreat power in econimics  and army and to be or more than usa  rushan  china  so to take great part in drawing policy of world

Answer 11

Movements towards European unitification are fundamantally an extension of the long-standing political and military concept of collective security. There are certainly economic advantages to this as well as political, but it can in no way be interpreted as an economic or political power grab. The EU is composed of many independant countries and these are capable of following independant policies within the Union  and externally and do so very often.

Answer 12

There have been way too many conflicts in Europe over the last century for them not to.  It saves money and saves lives and could eventually lead the EU to be the biggest superpower over the United States.