ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF EUROPEAN UNION

European union is a political and economic union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in europe. it brings together different countries and controls matters relating to politics and trade evolving the member states.the mode of operation is paradox and hard to understand.According to washington , he said "nobody would have deliberately designed a government as complex and as redundant as the european union".The advantages and disadvantages will be analysed in the text below.
                        ADVANTAGES OF BEING A MEMBER
1. It prevents war- war can be controlled between member, and any form of argument will be settled by the body.An instance was when georgia and russia were contemplating war. (According to The National Newspaper),it says the union is leading a diplomatic push to prevent all out war between georgia and russia.thats a strategy of minimizing war globally.

2. It increases trade and reduces european currency costs to firms-countries now trade within the union members and therfore money flows within the countries.
3. Contol powers of country under the body
4.Inflation reduction
5. it makes states under it to rely on each other
6. they are subjected to restrictions that are favourable to their economy and development
7. their citizens can travel any where around the union in search of job.

gathering of countries to bring about ties, economical and political growth.


                              DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A MEMBER
 1. The system has been unstable, with changes of names, to constitution reviews, this is not good for such body.
 2.  Loss of soveriengty by members- countries can not be controlled by the leaders without the interferance of the European Union.
(According to telegraph by Hannah ) , "uk was no longer an independent country since it is under Eureopean union, (http://www.abundanthope.net/) .
 3. It causes reccession
 4. there is difficulty in extending single currency as economies are not close enough.
 5.sometimes the rules and regulations are not favourable to small countries.
 6. uncountable to its citizen, decisions are taken away from citizens country.
 7. Inequality of bigger and smaller states, france,germany and united kingdom hold seperate meeting and supress smaller states.