A brief history of the European Union

A brief history of the EU from the end of World War Two to the present. This has been recorded for use in classrooms when learning about the EU and should be used in conjunction with other resources.
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[@frankweienbach3651]

That trap beat is lit

[@Barry-the_bruiser]

wse goona spit some fat bars to it

[@chivae2327]

Damn am I the only one here bc of school lmfao

[@taskirakhan5700]

nah i am too 😭 not even from europe

[@princesssam773]

yah and im from asia😭

[@dominicmartinkus]

nah I'm here because of a history book

[@iluvdarkthrone]

Uni

[@quaqmireful]

LOL UK applied twice before it got in. Years later she opted out, haha

[@novocastrianwinter9869]

quaqmireful we were lied to though.

[@nabidisla.5086]

Novocastrian Winter sure you were

[@TonySpenc]

It was asked,but refused to join in the beginning. Then when Europe was doing way better than the UK they wanted in. However, it seems De Gaulle was right.

[@amojak]

The uk was doing shit due to the socialist labour government of the early 70's, we were basically cattle herded into the EU to save our arse from our own government. The french blocked us joining prior to this too, people seem to forget this.

[@paulbroderick8438]

Yep, DeGaule vetoed UK entry at one time. He was doing the UK a favor. Joining the EU and decimalization were disastrous.

[@mariosathens1]

History is a lesson not only to learn about the past but also to learn how to solve future problems, because as they all say "History is repeating throw centuries". The past 15 years EU reminds me the era of the "Hellenic world" before the civil Peloponesian war. The Greek - cities always declared wars each other, then Persian Empire invated the Hellenic World so the major Greek-cities formed an alliance. As we all know the Greek alliance won the Persian Empire. Then the Greek-cities stoped fighting each other and started to strenth their ties, like EU. But after some years of peace, the major Greek - cities (Athens, Sparta, Thives, Corinth) wanted to take control of this Hellenic alliance. They started to insult each other, stopped helping each other and form new alliances inside the Hellenic alliance. The result was the rise up of nationalism among the Greek cities and to start the civil Peloponesian war that weaken all the Greek cities, something that ended the era of Greeks. Today we have EU which formed to bring peace in Europe. But after the entry of 10 new member states from Easten Europe, the financial and refugee crises the facts reminds me the days before the Peloponesian war.. States insults other states, major European powers trying to form alliances inside EU in order to control other states, narionalism is rising up again very fast etc etc

[@AMKhan-vj6wu]

Treaty of maastricht was signed on 7 February 1992, not 1993!

[@finngurgens3264]

fire beats

[@beholdhimadventistministri5939]

Can I possibly use this video in an educational video that I am producing? I promise to provide accreditation.

[@shitstirrer]

Thank you for concise explanation!

[@Joey-ct8bm]

The start of the video is all wrong. The Benelux Union is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a portmanteau formed from joining the first few letters of each country's name-Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg-and was first used to name the customs agreement that initiated the union (signed in 1944). It is now used more generally to refer to the geographic, economic, and cultural grouping of the three countries. The Benelux Union was the first. It's probably no coincidence the EU Treaty is signed in the Netherlands and the EU headquarters is in Belgium.

[@wilberthidalgo_3176]

Omg love that they show a Clip oh “hold me now” by the Thompson Twins 😍

[@Floreduarda1]

Really interesting I actually thought that the euro came in 1999 or 2000 but it came in 2002!! Really good!!!

[@RAFilitimate]

whats the song at like 2:15?

[@SB-ze8rp]

How the hell am I supposed to memorize each year with the countries that joined in My brain cells are dying😓

[@papunagulashvili2121]

were can i find winstons full speech? plz?

[@MichaelJ44]

Visit Traitors.Co.uk. You’ll find all of its speeches there

[@philkerno9598]

Awesome! thanks!!

[@fiLABs]

Bruh my school brought me here.....

[@DomonkosVarga-pb3yy]

really good, really liked it! anyam borogass!

[@TechTehScience]

I don't get why people blame the EU for Germany and France's high influence. You are aware that in any geopolitical scenario influence will always be in place, yes? Look at the UN. Are you telling me that it's not biased towards the most powerful states? At least the EU is better managed and does actually benefit member states. Even if the EU weren't in place Germany and France would still be widely influential.

[@danielsaxebarnsteinsrensen7294]

name of beat?

[@robertsacco6285]

what is that guy doing at 1:02 ?

[@artygracja2097]

What about Spinelli?

[@Joey-ct8bm]

The start of the video is all wrong. The Benelux Union is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a portmanteau formed from joining the first few letters of each country's name-Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg-and was first used to name the customs agreement that initiated the union (signed in 1944). It is now used more generally to refer to the geographic, economic, and cultural grouping of the three countries. The Benelux Union was the first. Not the treaty of Germany and France. It's probably no coincidence the EU Treaty is signed in the Netherlands and the EU headquarters is in Belgium.

[@TykusBalrog]

The EU organization trace its origins to that steel-and coal community. The Benelux may have been inspirational, but it's a separate organization.

[@Snoflakes_1]

So... which are the countries in the EU today?

[@nerdsunited345]

Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom is also a member but they will be leaving the union sometime in the next few years due to the brexit election

[@imdbist]

Look it up in Google

[@marccondon4136]

2 all beef paties, secret sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, on a sesame seed bun

[@imdbist]

1993 is when it all went wrong. We, the UK, should have left then.

[@MaaLxB]

What beat is that

[@druvamojumder7784]

Respectful Prime Minister. Honour for President. My Name is Druva Noakhali Zila Bangladesh. Remember to There Community And A Briefing History of The Green European Foundation.

[@nandinisharma2613]

Nice explanation 🙂

[@GegoXaren]

Please use the term "member state" instead of "country".

[@Spaghetter813]

Gego/XAREN ゲゴザレン "Please refrain from using synonims"

[@imdbist]

Nation as in my nationality is British. My state is I'm still alive.

[@veggie42]

EU was the combined separate parts of communities and the Freedom of Movement is daft when more come to UK then leave it increasing each year and also why more want to go to UK to work in supermarkets and UK won't work in any supermarkets anywhere!

[@lloydnaylor6113]

the remoaners must be shedding tears reminiscing about this.

[@isaacsafranski2273]

4:08 was the most informational part of this short clip.

[@AlmantasVainauskasPolitics2014]

European Union may not be perfect, but it's a step towards a brighter future for most European countries. European Union is a step towards political, social and economic consolidation of our European continent.

[@quaqmireful]

I concur with your statement

[@edmonddantes9408]

No. It's a step away from democracy. Every referendum they held on the formation of a European trade union met with at least 70% democratic opposition. So the bankster puppets just signed the Lisbon treaty behind everyone's backs. Now, years later, the value of our money is steadily heading to zero, as it's backed by nothing but the trillions of debt this system generated, while the bankster criminals just keep appointing each other. The EU is literally just a bunch of ex-bank employees appointing each other, without any democratic input, that gave themselves the 'right' to tax an entire continent, basically. Nothing about it is democratic. This unelected scum keeps getting us involved in wars no European wants, with OUR money. They keep imposing taxes on everything, while exempting themselves from even national taxes. This is a group of textbook counterfeiting, billionaire frauditor thieves who literally supported Mao back in the day. The EU is an economic serial killer with a pedophile smile on its face.

[@AlmantasVainauskasPolitics2014]

***** Your argument sounds very aggressive, but probably with some valid points. I appreciate for your detailed reply and time to educate us, in some ways. Take care.

[@Lionfish5656]

Almantas Vainauskas, Don't argue w/him. He just got his info from Russian Media & he's most likely a paid Putinbot.

[@AlmantasVainauskasPolitics2014]

Although he/she could similarly claim that we are brainwashed by Western media, I see your point! Anyways, I believe that Instead of trying to prove that the other side is wrong, we should enhance each others arguments.

[@ioanbota9397]

I like

[@tagforless]

Everytime i try to watch clips bout the EU to remind myself how lucky i am to live in it i only found haters. I know it's your right to comment but couldn't you stick with just the anti EU clips? I mean we have no whatsoever documentary, indipendent video or anything that makes some EU propaganda. I remeber once i wanted to watch a movie bout the EU thinking that the first world economy had already released a film about the glory of the Union. Nothing. The only thing that resembled a cinematic product was a mockumentary about a failed EU. I mean wtf. Also because in general terms freedom of speech is when you hear both sides of the story and of haters we already got alot. So EU make a God damn movie!!!

[@bahnartukrong857]

hello please help our montagnard

[@vincentjacobsson3981]

I think it should be investigated if the European Union now and then is legislated with the Bible written as a story. The word immunity (Latin immunitas, freedom from obligations to the state) comes from a religious revelation from the middle ages, most likely from a pope to become lawless, and which has since been rewritten into full immunity, personal and functional immunity (legally, cannot be prosecuted for criminal act) to the kings (head of state), presidents, and prime ministers, for law decisions and actions. The political exploitation of the vital ecosystem has now led to forest death (force majeure) and how will it affect people's economy, etc.

[@romain5031]

I am afraid that European Union grew too fast in 2004 and will pay one day for these. we should focused on original union that could be improved at that time instead of enlarged. Greece is an example that cost us a lot.

[@TechTehScience]

+Romain Pieton I personally believe Greece was necessary. It showed one of the EU's weak points and it served as a lesson for the future so this is less likely to happen again. People claim such errors shows that the EU doesn't work, but honestly every new thing must go through such errors to improve.

[@chickenhunter4694]

@Rune Jensen you love conspiracy theories don't you?

[@Adrian-rb4qp]

Rune Jensen LoL norsk?

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

Greece joined in the 80s. Literally ALL the EU members that joined in 2004 now got better economies than Greece...Some of them even much better than Greece amd some of them even much better than Portugal. GDP PPP per capita of Slovenia and Czechia is now literally getting very CLOSE to the Japanese and British GDP PPP per capita!

[@pinchermartyn3959]

"Europe's nation's should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation". Jean Monnet one of founding fathers of European integration. Just for information and this being reason for Brexit.... Maastricht Treaty paved way for A Federal United States of Europe. It was never voted on by UK electorate.

[@theresaaberilla3612]

My "next", and foremost 'task' - is to "raise" THE EUROPEAN FLAG!!!

[@MrSharonsinha]

Online school check

[@jobrown6449]

check

[@nickcolburn8340]

I thought the euro was created in 1999? hmmm

[@foorack]

The Euro was officially and legally adopted in 1995. It was released to markets in the form of an accounting 'unit' (used to represent value of something) in 1999. Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002.

[@hyunjinki1995]

1973 together with Ireland

[@noob282butreal]

hyunjin lee and Denmark

[@seeleyization]

This is very misleading. There was no EU before 1993 ... but it has the UK "joining" the EEC in 1973. These were simply trade agreements, not a common EU. I was in the Netherlands in 1990, specifically to study the possibility of an EEC, which latter became the EU. This is freaking Orwellian.

[@youlikeit08]

seeleyization EU since 1951

[@novocastrianwinter9869]

seeleyization look at the state of that kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGiQg4J8h6acipo you are correct, free speech counts for nought.

[@remcovanek2]

snif snif I smell bull💩

[@HYUKLDER1]

The concept of union is by no means new: Deutsches Reich 1871-1943 Großdeutsches Reich 1943-1945 (Incorporating Weimarer Republik 1919-1933 and Drittes Reich 1933-1945) Allied occupation 1945-1947 Bizonia 1947-1948 Trizone 1948-1949 Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949-1951 Despite dismantling it by 1945, once more empire building! They just can't help it. Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl 1951-1958 Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft 1958-1993 Europäische Gemeinschaft 1993-2009 Europäische Union 2009-? Europäische Union (EU) now has an occupied area of 4,475,757 km2 and has ensnared the populations of twenty eight nations, over 510,000,000 people! Viertes Reich, Heil Juncker!

[@DJRAJEE]

Thanks

[@hurstmitchell6392]

Shame it didnt just stick to trade.

[@latexcitizenx]

Oi! Teacher!!! Leave us kids alone!!! ..... Your Hip-hop track is wack..! D...D...D...D...Don't....Don't..........Don't....Don't...D...D...D...D...Don't....Don't...... DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!! 'n'ahmsay'n? Respect others. Learn from others. Help others. Think fo' yo'self!!! VOTE LEAVE Peace!

[@northamericanunion4809]

I hope that the great North American nations of Mexico the USA and Canada can unite to form a basic union. Let us unite! Together we are strong.

[@WalterModel45]

that is imposible. mexico has a lot of problems and canada doesn't want to share his naturla resources

[@asianarkiewicz169]

This didn't age very well...

[@jonsid6628]

Try the real politik version. France knew it would always lose to Germany - militarily and economically - and came up with a method of riding on their coat tails.

[@vectorjoe]

What are you talking about, france always loosing to germany? I am german, and in the course of the centuries we got our asses handed by france several time, we also got occupied by them. Yes they surrendered to us in ww2, but we also surrendered to them several time.

[@jonsid6628]

@@vectorjoe Really? Despite Germany only existing from the nineteenth century?

[@vectorjoe]

@@jonsid6628 oh come on......ffs of course including predecessor states up until the breakup of the frankish empire.

[@skidmark8684]

A very innocent view of a very toxic arrangement, They missed out the bit about Kelergi and the links to globalism.

[@guerreiro943]

Toxic in what way? Care to elaborate?

[@GamerOpinionsTV]

"It still works for the good of the people" Trying to imply it already does, propaganda. "Even after being denied 2 times we got to join the EU" Implyign that it's some great victory for giving the UK the priveledge to join propaganda. Kept saying most when discussing positive stuff about the EU, but when there is people against the EU always only said some. Propaganda. Need i say more.

[@Sixu83]

You spout propaganda... Not the video.

[@alianknight517]

"It still works for the good of the people" - You should read up on the european principles and regulations. Especially the health care regulations. Without these regulations we'd still be smoking in restaurants, driving high poluting cars, eating food with heavy chemicals in them, Patients getting NO healthcare across the EU, NO environmental protection...

[@reno.zed1]

Still you said nothing to explain why the video is just propaganda. I already have the UKIP fascists in my country spreading anti-EU crap, at least here can you actually stop?

[@reno.zed1]

Rune Jensen normally pedophiles are mote likely to be right-wing, that's defo a fact.

[@reno.zed1]

Rune Jensen uahahhahaha you such an idiot!

[@Hhifix]

Germany 🇩🇪: Let’s form somesing cool so just sign here :D Europe 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇹🇴🇵🇱: Ummm Germany... Germany 🇩🇪: yei? :D Europe 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇹🇴🇵🇱: this just looks like your peacefully annexing us and changing your flag... Germany 🇩🇪: it does?... *sweats nervously* Europe 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇹🇴🇵🇱: ... did you get influenced by America? 🇺🇸 Germany 🇦🇸: ._. nie ... and who ah u to call me out? Everzybody knows zet you Britain arh clearly doing za nasty vith her! UK 🇬🇧: ... ... didn’t you as well? /./_/./ Germany 🇩🇪: yeah vat zat did not count! Europe 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇹🇴🇵🇱: ... are you building another Reich?... Germany 🇮🇲: ... ._. Nie... Europe 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇹🇴🇵🇱: this looks like your old flag but just blue and a different symbol... Germany 🇪🇺: ... ._. Nie... Europe 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇹🇴🇵🇱: ... *signs contract* UK 🇬🇧: *signs fake name* USA 🇺🇸: looks from across sea... USA 🇺🇸: is it me or should I be a little concerned?... 😬

[@arcticdoggo]

Guess what, UK IS OUT

[@shawnastevens2245]

A MISTAKE

[@bennybanks5225]

Seconde 7 likez mon com

[@alancummings7107]

Did we not join the common market not the EU fucked over again .

[@andrewdavies8954]

Britains greatest mistake was to join this cabal

[@alexmonte5504]

they foced us to join I don't think we wanted to

[@shahqu5dohcoh9ri88]

glory to the EU!

[@josephgarcia7030]

No Borders may Europe be forever united

[@novocastrianwinter9869]

No Borders why you want no borders? How is it working out for Europe? Not well, you should change name to no balls instead.

[@nathan19811000]

How's that working out!

[@LiftOffLife]

Oh yes...look what the EU does to Africa - capx.co/how-the-eu-starves-africa-into-submission/

[@nathan19811000]

@@LiftOffLife just checked that out I've head of it but as usual mass media cover up and all runs back to the euro cock suckers !

[@jeffsmith3392]

Awful idea

[@drewworten4188]

boring

[@thatguywiththeegg]

This propaganda is taught in schools?

[@hemlock68]

Best eu video is " end the eu dictatorship " by david noakes. A true history. Not this.