Monday, April 23, 2007

The European Union


The European Union(EU) was a combination of 25 nations to make one alliance in Europe. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was only the US to stand alone, so Europe came in to take the empty space for power. Like the USSR, the European Union didn't work with the US, they competed with them.

The 25 allied nations shared the same income, as stated in their contract of alliance. This was called the Euro. This took over for the US dollars that were usually exchanged.After this new economic system of money exchange was finalized, it became obvious that the US dollars were about one-third more than Euro dollars. This new system made the people of Europe richer.

The EU gave workers a broader area to skim through jobs. The people in these 25 nations had a choice of all 25 of these nations.

One of the restrictions of the EU was that capital punishment was not allowed, so that eliminated Turkey not to be included in this alliance. The EU has about 500 million people in its population which is about 200 million more of the population of the US. Maybe this huge difference of people is because of those who are free to roam the US even with all the laws, killing people. Since the US has capital punishment, the population will decrease by those who die at the hands of the law more often than that in the EU.

I think that the EU has a higher population because of not having capital punishment. I think that because of the fact that the EU is refusing to kill their own people, the people in these 25 nations choose to be at peace with each and not kill each other on a daily basis because of this action of law. I'm not saying that their perfect,but that they have a lower rate of deaths per year which speaks greatly when compared to the US.

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