The European Union is unique in history with its embrace of ... Western Europe saw its first marked political integration since the waning ... Fourteen maps chart 2,000 years of European politics.

Today’s Europe is, in effect, returning to such a map. The decades of peace and prosperity, from the 1950s to 2009, when the European Union’s debt crisis began, made the political and economic ...

Here are four maps that shows how much Europe is fragmented on all levels and why the European Union is destined for extinction. Geography Has Little to Do With Borders or Safety Let’s first ...

And while the name “European Union” wouldn’t emerge until 1992, this is the founding of the EU as we know of it today. Like America celebrates July 4, the EU celebrates May 9 as “Europe ...