Abstract
When the European Union was first established, its founding fathers displayed the simplest of its principles. Two of the most important ones were war-free trade and a minimum of conflicts between the countries, apart from the obvious hope of increasing trade gains between the union's members, along with the rate of growth of these countries. However, nowadays, we notice that the European Union has globally expanded and became strong enough to guide the economies of several nations whose trade and economic conditions are far from simple. The founding fathers underestimated the political forces shaping the decisions of the governments and their economies.
