Abstract
The principle of creating a political and economic union in Europe is not new. In fact, long before the twentieth century, Victor Hugo advocated that European states needed to build one united Europe unite in order to remove the national rivalries and to control the division of interest between competing European powers. However, the development of Europe really started after the Second World War. In fact, in a rebuilding context and the start of the "cold war", the states of Western Europe have begun to adopt the American economy politic. In the west the US provided economic aid (the Marshall Plan) and led a military alliance (NATO). Liberal democracy was generally fostered, and capitalism measures were used to achieve growth. Thus, we will study the process of the economic integration, and then we will see how Europe has been built with the Single Monetary Market and the Economic Monetary Union. And finally we will see that Europe has adopted a neo-liberal principle.
