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11011 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:58 pm how did the EU even come to be?

can someone give me a rundown as a native? (i am not european)

i'm tempted to google it but i expect i might have to wade through some PC crap to get at the real story...wikipedia itself has a strong liberal and incidentally pro-eu bias

or is there just one set of accepted facts regarding why or how it emerged? it is similar to the united nations after ww1?

as in ignorant American, i think the EU formed in the 1950's - via Luxemburg, Germany, France and Italy as an economic zone. over decades it included more Nations. England voted via a Reforendum in 71? 72? to join.

later the EU transformed from a purely economic unity to a political one too.

England never liked that transformation, and so now we have Brexit, the other 27 see their interests more in line with staying/joining the EU - politically and economically.

Veggie,

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