Research Paper on:
European Community Development Issues

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benefit to each of the nation states concerned and has become a saving grace for the preservation of national identity within the nation states themselves. The nation states within the  European Community have not only seen individual economic benefit from their participation in the community but have also received international recognition and support of their social, welfare and human rights  issues previously ignored or unsupported on national levels. The unification also hopes to provide more political stability to the region as the nation states will be more economically attached therefore  avoiding conflicts previously felt during the two world wars. The Maastricht Treaty of 1993 moved the member-states of the European Community toward a  unification of political and economic affairs which will reshape the design of Europe into a more competitive force during this era of globalization. Although the European states which have united  have worked in most arenas relatively coherently in regards to economic and political affairs, they have previously thought of themselves as more or less separate in regards to sovereignty and  this will prove to be one of the major areas of adjustment (Deflem and Pampel, 1996). Europes unification really began with the Treaty of Rome in 1957 when Belgium, France,  Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the former West Germany formed the European Economic Community (EEC) to provide a higher cooperation in economic matters for their mutual benefit (Milward, 1993). The  EEC expanded when Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark joined in 1973 and Greece, Portugal and Spain joined in 1986. The Single European Act of 1986 was created to arrange for  a single political and economic union to form of the European Community (EC) by 1993. This led to the Maastricht Treaty, named after the town in the Netherlands where it