After the 55 million deaths caused by WWII, after centuries of
nationalist and imperialist wars left Europe in ruins, the peoples and
the national governments across the continent finally realized that
European unity was the only way to stop this madness.
Immanuel
Kant had had this vision 150 years earlier in his philosophical treatise
“On Eternal Peace.” So, at long last, Europe's leaders set out to turn
it into reality. Over the next decades, the Common Market, the European
Community and the European Union emerged, followed by a common currency.
Dictatorships fell and democracy prevailed throughout the continent..
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