The European states has passed trough a lot of things during its existence, both wars, cold war, revolutions, the birth of new movements for the time as was fascism, Nazism but the birth of constitution in France, reconized musicians, artists, colonizers, philosopy and so on.
And in spite some difficulties they went trough the EU figured the way to integrate by the accomplishment of some stages as the Economic Community of the Coal and Steel, European Economic Community, European Atomic Energy Community, Maastrich Treaty and Euro as a currency; and other economic treaties that lead to what is known today as European Union.
For some critics, EU is what is today because their colonies resources, taking from then precious metals, territories and treasures in the mercantilism time, but it was just a stage for them and is impossible to deny their always permanent need of investigation and knowledge.
The European Union has a very close regionalism, they all share values and different religions as Christianity and Islam, plus is a secular continent with the largest number and proportion of irreligious, agnostic and atheistic people in the Western world.
And about the environmental worry, they are doing a lot of things to stop the damage of the climate and all what this takes. Latest days, I had the opportunity to investigate about the fact of not using plastics bags, and I realized that Europe is one of those regions that are really supporting this cause.
The main cases are France, Holland and Spain where the government has given bags madden of other materials in order to put an end to this transformation.
An this isn't a something new, in Ireland TESCO supermarket started with some policy that helped to diminish the uses of those bags. The put a tax on plastic shopping bags and that action has cut their use by more than 90% and raised millions of euros in revenue, according to the government. And not only economic benefits but, environmental ones and more when the environment ministry estimated that 1.2 billion free plastic bags were being handed out every year in the republic, leaving windblown bags littering Irish streets and the countryside, causing more contamination and in some cases block the water drains, which is not healthy at all.
So that`s why citizens are encourage to use their own bags or other recyclebal bags that are good with the environment. In coutries as India and China some laws are been imposed in order to teach people not to use them, for example in the next years if somebody is caugth with a plastic bag, using it, at home or distributing them will be taken in prision for 5 years. Too much consiousness?
Any way, the European Union with all its development is a great model for countries as ours, to go ahead and forget that maybe if some countries were enemies or allies in the world war, there are common interests more important than selfishness and individualism.
References
And in spite some difficulties they went trough the EU figured the way to integrate by the accomplishment of some stages as the Economic Community of the Coal and Steel, European Economic Community, European Atomic Energy Community, Maastrich Treaty and Euro as a currency; and other economic treaties that lead to what is known today as European Union.
For some critics, EU is what is today because their colonies resources, taking from then precious metals, territories and treasures in the mercantilism time, but it was just a stage for them and is impossible to deny their always permanent need of investigation and knowledge.
The European Union has a very close regionalism, they all share values and different religions as Christianity and Islam, plus is a secular continent with the largest number and proportion of irreligious, agnostic and atheistic people in the Western world.
- Supports an scheme where values comes first, and democracy, laws and environment consciousness are as important as the other.
- Has foreign policies as a group
- Wanted to balance the American economic potency.
- Right now they has the 19% global commerce, is the biggest exporter in the world and the biggest importer and has the 30% of the world's GDP.
And about the environmental worry, they are doing a lot of things to stop the damage of the climate and all what this takes. Latest days, I had the opportunity to investigate about the fact of not using plastics bags, and I realized that Europe is one of those regions that are really supporting this cause.
The main cases are France, Holland and Spain where the government has given bags madden of other materials in order to put an end to this transformation.
An this isn't a something new, in Ireland TESCO supermarket started with some policy that helped to diminish the uses of those bags. The put a tax on plastic shopping bags and that action has cut their use by more than 90% and raised millions of euros in revenue, according to the government. And not only economic benefits but, environmental ones and more when the environment ministry estimated that 1.2 billion free plastic bags were being handed out every year in the republic, leaving windblown bags littering Irish streets and the countryside, causing more contamination and in some cases block the water drains, which is not healthy at all.
So that`s why citizens are encourage to use their own bags or other recyclebal bags that are good with the environment. In coutries as India and China some laws are been imposed in order to teach people not to use them, for example in the next years if somebody is caugth with a plastic bag, using it, at home or distributing them will be taken in prision for 5 years. Too much consiousness?
Any way, the European Union with all its development is a great model for countries as ours, to go ahead and forget that maybe if some countries were enemies or allies in the world war, there are common interests more important than selfishness and individualism.
References
- Echeverri, M. & Ortiz, S. & Parente, A.M. (2008) Presentation "Europe" Organization and culture subject. Universidad EAFIT
- Unión Europea, negociación dificil. Revista Dinero, Talento Global (2007) p.p. 84 and 85.
- Irish bag tax hailed success. (2002) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2205419.stm
- Europe map. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=es&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=DpR&q=europa&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=co&ei=C9USSvPjJYujtgfA4OWQBA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=19
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