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Unit 3. Europe, Europe. Reading and listening - номер 1, страница 26.

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READING AND LISTENING

1 In pairs, answer the questions.

• Have you been to any country of the EU?
• Does Russia border any countries of the EU?
• Would you like Russia to join the EU? Why/why not?

European Union: the beginnings

Danielle MacFarlane looks back at the unlikely birth of the European Union.

Today twenty-eight countries belong to the European Union. More than 507 million Europeans have the right to live in, work in or travel to other EU countries. Millions of people enjoy friendly contact with their neighbours across borders.

Governments across Europe pass the same laws about employment, food, transport, health and the environment.

The EU is also the largest free market in the world. A typical European supermarket is full of fresh fruit, vegetables, cheese and meat that come from all over Europe.

Twelve countries even use the same currency, the euro.

In fact, the European Union has a very big influence over our lives, but most of us don't even notice it.

But if we look at Europe just three generations ago, we start to understand that the story of the EU is even more surprising.

In 1945, Europe had just experienced the most terrible war in history.

Many historians believe that at least forty million people were killed, although such numbers are very hard to calculate.

At the end of the war millions were homeless and much of Europe was in ruins.

In fact, famine was a bigger problem in 1947 than it was during the war years.

Worst of all, many countries still didn't trust each other.

It is perhaps a surprise to learn that the first politician to suggest 'a United Europe' after the war was Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the war years.

In September 1946, during a meeting in Switzerland, he said that Europeans should come together to create a 'United States of Europe'.

However, most people, especially in Britain, thought that Churchill's ideas were shocking or even absurd.

Eight months later a huge conference was organised in the Netherlands. Eight hundred important European

Modest beginnings. Six countries sign the Treaty of Rome in 1957

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