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COX on 26 June 2016
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AnthonyW86 said:
Peh said:

 This is not the whole truth.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/20/what-is-the-eu-why-was-it-created-and-when-was-it-formed1/                              

The EU can trace its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Economic Community (EEC), formed in 1951 and 1958 respectively by the Inner Six countries of Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. 

French foreign minister Robert Schuman led the formation of the ECSC with the Schuman Declaration in May 1950. The organisation was a forerunner of several other European Communities and what is now the European Union.

 

http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/index_en.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union

Before 1993 it was mainly a trade union, the EU is a political union. And to comment on the rise of Nationalism, Nigel Farage once said: "If you rob people of democracy, if you rob people of their identity, then all that you get is nationalism". Seems like he was right.

Schuman and Monnet started by the economic aspect because they knew that it was much more difficult to start by the political aspect but from the begining the point was in the long term to create a political union.