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Why was the European Union created? toc to make the European Countries closer together

to have only one currency throughout Europe

for there to be only one market in Europe

for immigration to be easier througout

= = Give a brief history of the EU. Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany were the first of the EU but first created__munity__

the EU was formally official Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany were the main creators of the EU

before EU, the countries created the when the Maastricht treaty was passed on November 1st 1993

presently, the EU has a currency that they can all share throughout the continent

What is the purpose of the EU?
= = to provide peace between their millions of citizens

to have transport and comunication troughout Europe without using passports

to have eternal peace in Europe

to not have to have currency exchanges throughout the small continent

How does the EU benefit Europeans?
= = to live work and travel anywhere in the European Union

eventually you won't have to go through border patrol five times every 500 miles

to not have to worry that your neighbor country is going to kill you at any point in time

you get to use the high exchange rate euro

Give a history of your country’s involvement in the EU.
Recently Latvia has been in a grudge match with the EU saying that they want to spell the euro: eiro because euro is a non existant word in Latvian

joined in 2004, and as of 2005 Latvia is the one of the poorest in the EU according to surveys

all russian or soviet owned land was in Latvia was reclaimed by the Latvians

now all of its neighbors live alongside them in the EU

they joined the EU so that they could protect them from the Russians
 * Why or why isn’t your country a member of the EU?**

so they could use the euro and bring their country from one of its poorest to a fairly wealthy country

to join the Europeans into being united countries to strengthen themselves

How does the EU benefit your country?
picture of Riga, Latvia's capital