European Union Dbq

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Prutha Patel
Mr. Lougheed
Social Studies
09 February, 2016
Has Europe United?
Do you believe that the European Union has united Europe? A supranational cooperation is a when countries give up some control of their affairs as they work together to achieve shared goals. The European countries have used supranational cooperation to create the European Union because they want to prevent future wars, and rebuild the weak economy that had formed after the two wars. The European Union has united Europe because it has made Europe have a common currency called the Euro, has a common “government” for the European Union, and has all of the countries influenced when one country that is part of the European Union be in “trouble”.
The European Union has a common “government” called the Parliament. In the background essay it stated, “The role of the parliament is to debate and pass laws, make sure all EU institutions work democratically, and debate, and adopt the EU budget”. This means that the parliament has control over the laws, and controls the European Union budget. In Document B it mentions, “Whatever institution governs the trade of a nation or group of nations whether monarchy, dictator or parliament- essentially rules that nation”. This means that the parliament has control over the European Union. Most of the time countries
In Document C, the different countries are represented by the dominos and when one country is pushed down then all of the countries are pushed down. This means that when one country is in a bad or good state, then all of the countries are at a disadvantage or advantage. Also, this means that all of the countries support each other (by choice, not by force). As well as that, the countries are always affected by each other, so they probably need help from the other countries of the European Union, and they would most probably only ask for help if they were

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