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Originally Posted by EnI  EU is still much more complex & fragile formation. And therefore much more admirable due its latest success. Because till 1945 (and in some parts even later) European countries have been often involved in armed conflicts , and Europe was a very unstable area. |
That is true. What many people do not necessarily know is that the (probably) biggest reason for the forming of the European Coal and Steel Community (which later became the European Economic Community, then the European Community, then the European Union) was to prevent Germany and France from going to war again.