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European unification into the twenty first century
"Towards the end of the year 2011 and after numerous European summits convened to solve the Euro-economic crisis, one may wonder how long the European Union is going to survive? In its history of more than sixty years, there were more moments in which even the most optimistic 'European' no longer believed in its success, or in which the political leaders declared a shaky compromise to be a historic decision. European unification went through so many crisis that we can properly call it a 'system in permanent crisis'. The story of European Unification started in 1950 when two sworn enemies - France and Germany - decided to seek reconciliation and European federal unity. What began as a process of reconciliation between two sworn enemies became a peaceful enlargement of the European Union to twenty seven member states. The division of Europe between a Soviet dominated East and a...
