Happy Birthday EU

The EU celebrates his 50. Birthday and everybody discusses that today. The Germans tend to be a little bit negative but I guess it’s more realistic. And of course there are lots of unsolved problems in the EU. The European Parliament is a huge constructor with too much bureaucracy and for the citizen it seems mostly unfamiliar. But just look at the positive site, we haven’t had any war in the last 50 years in Europe; we can travel, study and work wherever we want in the EU. And the EURO is a big advantage as well, we don’t have to change money within the EU, we are more competitive within the EU and with other countries.

And I think it is even more important that we continue the eastern enlargement. Of course the EU has to be careful that they won’t get bankrupt because they are mostly poor countries in the eastern part. But if we won’t let them in we will have a big problem in Europe, because the western EU will be richer and the Eastern part poorer, this could lead the next war.
Right know the European Union consists of 27 countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom)

http://www.europa.eu/index_en.htm

Happy Birthday EU! I’m very proud what you did the past 50 years, so keep it up, there are many things left to do.