EUROPEAN UNION

European Union

    There are lots of countries in the world. However, some countries do not get on well each other but there are some countries which get on well each other. These countries set up a group which called European Union. This group set up with Maastritcht Treaty in 1992. European Union has approximately a population of five hundred million. After the European Union sets up, there are several causes and effects of European Union.

     First cause is economy. European Union’s members have common market and common currency such as Euro thanks to reason. There is a situation which people make circulation of people, goods, services and movement of capital in free way. Euro is the common currency. There are also twelve different currencies in European Union.

      Second cause is justice, freedom and security. They do not distinguish between people in terms of religion, language, race, disability and gender, age. At the same time, even if people commit an offense, European Union abolished the death penalty. So human rights have emerged.

      There are causes of European Union. However, although European Union has causes, it has possible effects on the participant countries.

       First effect is population. In European Union, the total population of twenty-seven members has increased considerably compared to normal. Population is increasing day by day because of migration. Population includes languages which are spoken by people who live in there. I mean in European Union, there are twenty-three official languages among all the languages and dialects. These are Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. At the same time, there is Christianity in European Union. Christianity is the most common language in the European Union.

    Second effect is culture and sport. This is the first thing that comes to mind about culture, these are Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Medieval Feudalism, Renaissance, and Age of Enlightenment in European Union. There are lots of international organizations about sport.  These are basketball, football, handball, ice hockey, rugby union, volleyball.

       To sum up, these are causes and effects of European Union. In my opinion, everyone should know and learn about causes and effects of European Union.