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The European Union (The founding of the EU (European Coal and Steel…

- - - - The countries who sighed the treaty were:
        
        Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands .
      - It was called the coal and steal community because the countries limited the coal and steel which was used in wars. Steel used to make weapons and coal for factories.
  - - - A common market means getting rid of all national
        obstacles to free trade, such as border checks, delays and custom duties, as if it was one big country.
        
        As a result people, goods, services and capital
        today move freely around the Union.
  - - - Meanwhile, other interesting thing happened beyond the EU’s border. In 1989 countries from central and Eastern Europe broke free from communist role. They had been divided during the ‘Iron Curtain’.
        
        These which had regained its freedom reformed its laws and economies and joined the EU. It now had 28 countries,
- - - - No customs duties between member states.
      - We can shift masses of goods and products around the EU for free.
    - - This freedom prohibits restrictions on free circulation of services within member states.
        
        E.g.Postal services.
        
        Internet Purchases.
        
        Banking.
    - - The right to travel.
      - The right to work in any member state.
      - The right to settle and live in any member state.
    - - Capital ( money ) within the EU can be transferred in any amount from one country to another.
    - - Many products have become much cheaper.
      - A 40% drop in the price of phone calls from 2000-2006.
      - 2.8 million new jobs from 1992 to 2009.
  - - - Creates jobs.
      - Easier to travel.
      - Easier to trade.
      - Able to trade as a whole unit with big countries like the USA.
      - Products only need to be made to 1 EU standard .
    - - Harder to track-down criminals.
      - Can’t control immigration as well.