In fact, EU is the NATO(minus the USA and Canada) in essence. EU is the economic entity, while NATO is the defence system.
The entire organisational structure was being seeded since the cold war, but things gathered momentum after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the EU became functional within a decade of the collapse of the mighty USSR.
The EEC was created to stop intra-european wars. The idea was that with an integrated economy, it would be too stupid to go warring against each others.
In fact, the first premices of a common foreign policy only came about the davington report, in the 70s, a whole 10+ years after the creation of the EEC and consolidated under the maastrich treaty in 1992.
The EEC was strictly an economic treaty that ultimately expanded in scope with judicial and political cooperation when the EU was formed.
NATO was the military alliance against the USSR, but it came about right after the war.
So, no, you’re wrong, the EU was not about protecting europe from the USSR, it was about strengthening the bonds of the EEC
NATO would have existed with or without the EEC and the EEC would have existed with or without NATO.
Foreign Policy was more about creating wars, if l remember my childhood history lessons right. That was how the first world war started. Before that Europe had been monarchies more or less. The second world war too was about foreign policies, but of a different kind. In fact, in the days that we live in, war is actually a foreign policy, be that the USA, Israel, India or Pakistan. That’s the reason why the Ukraine War is being glorified in Europe.
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Now let’s dig deeper into why so many different economies were decided to melt into one ?? I mean, a country is supposed to be an economy, right ??
I remember, back in the 90s, there was a franc, a pound, a mark and a lira. The French franc wasn’t the same as the Swiss franc or the Belge franc.
In fact, EU is the NATO(minus the USA and Canada) in essence. EU is the economic entity, while NATO is the defence system.
The entire organisational structure was being seeded since the cold war, but things gathered momentum after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the EU became functional within a decade of the collapse of the mighty USSR.
In fact, it’s one huge geopolitics.
The EEC was created to stop intra-european wars. The idea was that with an integrated economy, it would be too stupid to go warring against each others.
In fact, the first premices of a common foreign policy only came about the davington report, in the 70s, a whole 10+ years after the creation of the EEC and consolidated under the maastrich treaty in 1992.
The EEC was strictly an economic treaty that ultimately expanded in scope with judicial and political cooperation when the EU was formed.
NATO was the military alliance against the USSR, but it came about right after the war.
So, no, you’re wrong, the EU was not about protecting europe from the USSR, it was about strengthening the bonds of the EEC
NATO would have existed with or without the EEC and the EEC would have existed with or without NATO.
The Maastricht Treaty was a much later development. The story actually started with Benelux and Fig, with the ECSC as the foundation.
Foreign Policy was more about creating wars, if l remember my childhood history lessons right. That was how the first world war started. Before that Europe had been monarchies more or less. The second world war too was about foreign policies, but of a different kind. In fact, in the days that we live in, war is actually a foreign policy, be that the USA, Israel, India or Pakistan. That’s the reason why the Ukraine War is being glorified in Europe.
Oh wait, you’re just as stupid as your friend.
Instead of countering my perspective, you simply use an adjective out of the blue ??