The European Union - a Simpleton Explanation

The EU is a 27 country economic, trade, and politics club. Within the club is an inner circle of 17 countries that share the Euro currency. It is essentially made up of three bodies – the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Judiciary. This is written by someone who questions the future of the EU, so I will discuss the basic politics behind it

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The world economic crisis - a Simpleton explanation

In order to pay for things like welfare services and their military, governments must tax people to pay for it. Like you do for your family at Christmas, so governments borrow money to pay for extra goodies. In order to pay their debts, so they need increased revenues from tax – and rely on people like you and me to earn more, and thus pay more tax. When the economy goes tits up, so some countries struggle to pay their debts.

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