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There were originally 6 countries that together set up the European Economic Community, which is now known as the European Union. Those 6 countries were: * France * Germany * Italy * Luxembourg * Netherlands * Belgium
Europe consists of about 50 different countries, so they are not joined together. There is an organisation called the European Union, which has 27 members now, but they are all individual and independent countries. In 1957 it was formed by 6 countries: France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg and was known as the European Economic Community, or EEC.
The destructiveness of the two world wars caused many thoughtful Europeans to consider the need for some additional form of European Unity. National feeling was still too powerful, however, for European nations to give up their political sovereignity. As a result, the desire for unity focused cheifly on the economic arena, not the political one.
South American countries need to work together to address common challenges such as poverty, inequality, drug trafficking, and environmental issues. Cooperation can also help them amplify their voice on the international stage and promote economic development in the region. Additionally, working together can enhance regional stability and security.
It started after the two world wars to assure they wouldn't fight each other anymore, they also wanted to make trade easier throughout themselves, and they wanted to help boost their economy back up by joining together. Then countries gradually joined with the original EU.
A way countries are economically linked together.
Economic unity led to peace in Western Europe post WWII, but not right after (1946). France initiated the establishment of an economic unity between France and Germany, ultimately becoming the European Union. France wanted to economically bond the two countries together as to make a future war physically impossible to happen. The European Steel and Coal Community was created that eventually gave birth to the European Economic Community which eventually gave birth to the European Union.
The European Union has not done that. First of all, the European Union does not have all countries of Europe as members. Secondly, while it has promoted some common things and countries in it have worked together, they still all have their own cultures. It is by more practical things of common interest that they have helped bring countries closer together, such as trade.
It is not a trade union or labour union. It is an organisation where 28 of Europe's countries work together and co-operate on different issues that affect them. These areas include economic, agriculture, military, foreign affairs, fishing and many other areas.
The IMF is the world's central organization for international monetary cooperation. It is an organization in which almost all countries in the world work together to promote the common good. The IMF's primary purpose is to ensure the stability of the international monetary system-the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to buy goods and services from each other. This is essential for sustainable economic growth and rising living standards. To maintain stability and prevent crises in the international monetary system, the IMF reviews national, regional, and global economic and financial developments. It provides advice to its 184 member countries, encouraging them to adopt policies that foster economic stability, reduce their vulnerability to economic and financial crises, and raise living standards, and serves as a forum where they can discuss the national, regional, and global consequences of their policies. The IMF also makes financing temporarily available to member countries to help them address balance of payments problems-that is, when they find themselves short of foreign exchange because their payments to other countries exceed their foreign exchange earnings. And it provides technical assistance and training to help countries build the expertise and institutions they need for economic stability and growth.
They are all sovereign states, democracies, western countries, European countries, Western European countries, all bordered by the Atlantic ocean, and all mainstream Christian religion.