International Economics

International Economics
Enlargement and Deepening of EU
The original six members established the European Community in 1957: West Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. The main reason behind this unification was a specific response to a series of problems, which confronted a group of countries in Western Europe in the immediate aftermaths of 1945. Unification offered Western Europe a means of strengthening itself against both super powers united states and USSR. Stanley (p.30) argued that “the main motivation for European Community integration…is the argument of scale, or put more bluntly, the attraction of sizeism” In 1945 it was easy to relate size with success, Europe’s political failure could be attributed to smallness, which military victory against Germany could be accredited to the sheer size of the new super powers. “Economic studies of the advantages of scale, were simply taken as proven” Stanley (page ). From this we can understand that th...