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This 4 page paper considers the way in which the financial crisis which started in Europe in 2008 may have a negative impact on what has been referred to as "Europe's most successful foreign policy", the expansion of the European Union. The paper starts by considering why expansion has been so important and then looks at how and why of the crisis may have a negative impact on expansion in the future. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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this rapid rate of expansion, and more countries still wishing to obtain the membership, it may be argued that EU expansion has been one of the Unions most successful foreign
policies. However, with recent events and the difficulties faced by the Unions single currency; the Euro, it may be argued that this successful for policy is now under threat.
To consider why the economic crisis poses a threat it is first necessary to determine how and why expansion of the European Union is so important, and why it may
be seen as the most successful foreign policy. To appreciate this one must look at the origins of the European Union. The origins of the European Union can be found
following the end of the Second World War, where the development was seen initially in the Marshall plan of 1948. The idea was to create an economic union in order
to unify the different countries of Europe and create trading interdependencies which would lower the possibility of war. Europe had been devastated by two world wars in less than half
a decade. It was hoped that economic ties would be able to overcome the political fragmentation that existed. In this context the potential for war would be reduced as the
union became larger and he agreements and commitments between countries that were part of the union proliferated. Robert Schuyman and Jean Monnet
developed a plan to unify six of the industrial countries in the region, France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, under the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
(Dedman, 2009). The ECSC was created to bring the natural resources of these countries together, pooling coal and steel resources to improve production and trade (Dedman, 2009). It is
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