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Discuss the key stages in the development of the EU since the Marshall Plan and outline the key issues facing the EU of 2000.
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Discuss the key stages in the development of the EU since the Marshall Plan and outline the key issues facing the EU of 2000 The concept of "Europe" has been around for centuries, but the European Union has only been in action for fifty years. The first theories about the benefits European integration came about after the First World War, when Austro Hungarian Aristocrat Count Richard formed an organisation, Pan Europa, supporting the development of these ideas. It quickly gained an ardent following but was swept away in the Fascism of the 1930's. These theories were revived after another World disaster (WW2) in 1947. The priority for European leaders after the Second World War was to try to prevent Europeans from ever going to war with one another again. For most it seemed the major threats to European peace and security were nationalism and the nation state. National pro European groups decided to organise...
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