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In 1957, the Treaty of Rome led to the creation of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and the European Economic Community (EEC), which would become better known as the European Community. These early federations were direct predecessors of the European Union, which was formally established through the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992. The Maastricht treaty strengthened the powers of the intra-national federation and created cooperative realms of defense, agriculture, environmental law, transportation, human rights, and international trade. The single market and the single currency, the Euro, were also established after the Treaty of Maastricht.
Membership into the European Community and European Union has expanded consistently over the past several decades and continues. In 1973, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark joined. Greece became a member in 1981, and in 1986 Spain and Portugal became members. In 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined. In 2004, ten countries, many of which were former...
Due to the diversity of representation in the European Union, due to the wide range of issues the EU deals with, and due to the historical and continued domination of the EU by powerful Western European countries, conflict and dissention are commonplace in the EU decision-making process. Disagreements over economics, over foreign policy, foreign aid, agriculture, trade, and new member admissions plague the leadership of the European Union, which is a Western-European style bureaucracy. Thus, although the European Union is an undisputed success, it retains the character and flavor of Western European hegemony.
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