interrelation of the european union

Because of its economic reach, the European Union is referred to as an emerging powerhouse in the modern world. According to current United Nations statistics, all but one of its twenty-eight member countries have a very high human development index. Given its established norms, it has a common commercial center regulated by legal standards frameworks that extend to all of its member countries. The EU has a single currency and, as a union, it understands commodity exchange flow within its markets. It actually has the world's biggest and most strong economy. These are some of the factors that contribute to the EU's economic strength and global influence. The European Union has a role it plays worldwide in the international relations and defense. It works in collaboration with United Nations on the improvement of the international relations worldwide and is always presented in the United Nations meetings and duties. It has diplomatic duties that it sends its diplomats to international forums such as the World Trade Organizations making it more influential worldwide. It has been thriving for more than sixty years of its existence and enhancing the correlation of its member states factor that has really contributed to the massive economic empowerment of the union. Some of the decisions concerning its member states are made with the union which means there are specific policies that govern the leadership of all the member countries of the union. The fact that longtime existence has made the European Union develop the single market trade center for its members influenced the overall economical growth of all the member states. Besides, the fact about the currency is that it is a big uniting factor to the union and a very big economic stride in the economic stability and influence. This enables all the member states to work with specific expertise keenly watching the cooperate growth of the entire region growth. The conversion of the currency of all members has made euro to emerge on international market gaining against other major currency such as the dollar. Due to the massive influence and impact the European Union has, the possible overshadowing of all other nations, especially in the future and its economic stability that has contributed to the growth of its currency, it is important to look at the international relationship of the union and how these relationships are likely to positively contribute to the growth and improvement of life in the future.
There are different institutions that make up the European Union and govern the business of the union. These institutions are independent of each other though they correlate in their own specific ways. The institutions are not dominated by any single member state and but the leaders of the member state could be the leader and head of the institution watching over the affairs of the institution. All of them have their own specific leadership that delegate different duties and roles according to the visions and targets of the institutions, with the benefit of all its members in mind. All the institutions and the policies that govern them are stipulated in the policy articles of the union as a whole and govern the affairs of all its member state accordingly.
The European Council is one of the institutions of the European Union. It has a political interest for its members and defines the political description and conduct of its members, the way the political targets should be planned and executed objectively. It also provides the articles of development for the economic growth of the members of the European Union, realigning and supporting the individual specific visions. It is made up of different heads of states or the different presidents and holds its meetings quarterly a year. The different tasks of the European Union are set by the European Council on the specific objectives that should be achieved. This is to say that it formulates the various channels of actions that should be used whenever there is a European objective to be done. However, it is important to note that the European Council does not make its own laws but it makes use of the laws provided and subjects the different member countries to the political and economic directions in line with the stipulated laws productively. It ensures protocols in the international relationships between the EU members and the non-members are dealt with in accordance with the EU laws. This is the reason as to why the EU has been thriving because it does not allow any of its members to lose its values to the non-members. For example, the trading of the euro currency on the stock exchange goes in hand with the economic sustainability of the currency because the final overall benefit is impacted to all its members. The EU has the obligation of making sure that all the member countries use the same currency. The quarterly meetings are used for the major deliberations of the council and the union as a whole. However, in case there is an emerging need, then the president of the European Council calls for an immediate meeting at any given time. Decisions done within the council are built on mutual agreement, however, there are moments when the decision is based on electoral voting by the present members.
The Council of the European Union which is also known just as The Council is the second institution of the European Union. Here is where regulations, rules, and laws of the European Union are made. It is well known as the legislative function of the EU that is, a function where procedures are litigated. The Council of the European Union is represented by the governments of the individual member countries. The leadership of the Council of The European Union is held in specific routine in a rotating manner by the member countries leaders. The different representatives of the member countries in the Council of the European Union litigate on the various matters of the member states. However, these ministers do not meet routinely and have no a specific program and schedule but they necessitated by the need at hand and usually convene as per the need to be deliberated upon. They discuss the different ideas and regulations within the communities and drive them into legislative procedures for the entire member states. The Council of the European Union has got those members who never leave the council; permanent members each from the respective member state that is each member state has a permanent representative in the council. Whenever there is a decision to be made by the council, there are specific steps that are followed in three levels which are elective.
The European Commission is the third institution of the European Union and has the major function of the Union. It is the central unit of the union such that it plays all the major functions of the administration of the Union. The European Commission controls all the administration in regard to the technical knowledge of the ideas presented to the European Union. Whenever there is a law to be submitted to the council, the commission works on these laws checking all the technicalities involved just before it is submitted to the council. It is the basic unit within the entire union that holds the majority of functions in delegations of directives. The commission actively takes part in the politics of its members, in the review of the political acts keenly and directs the courses of actions of the politics of the member countries. It also helps in the formation of the different rules among the member states and its execution. It also helps the members in the adoption of the costs and expenditure factoring in the important and valid facts on the proposed budgets. The commission also represents the EU in the different international forums.
The European parliament is the fourth institution of the EU and is the arm that brings the interests of the citizens of Europe closer to the European Union. The parliament is made up of members from each country that are elected and represents the citizens of the member countries. The parliament plays a functional part in the budget formation together with the commission and has a right to regulate the formation of the budget. The parliament has also the legislative function, taking part in the formation of the laws and regulations of the European Union. It actively takes part in the laws formation and no law can be passed without the approval of the parliament, together with the help of the Council.
The court of justice of the European Union which is the fifth among the institutions is basically made of judicial kind of tasks delivery. It is the main arm that is in charge of making sure all the laws that are provided are well taken into account by the members, well-executed and it enforces the laws to the members. Experts in the legal field are selected to represent the members. Each state provides one judge to the formation of the institution and, therefore, twenty-eight judges, the people with expertise and good reputation in their work deliberation. However, it also consists of nine lawyers from the member states who join up the judges making a team of legislative for the entire institution. The lawyers are renewable at a specific interval and must also have expertise in laws and a good reputation. However, there is also the court of auditors whose main function is to oversee the budget and how it is managed. It also ensures good cost effective practices by balancing between the revenue collections and the prioritized expenses. The auditors are in charge of the revenue collection by making sure there is sufficient and obligatory revenue. It makes sure that all the funds are well spent, legally and in a proper manner.
The legal basis of policy is an act that regulates the members in their pursuit of their objective such that they should reach it without any forcing or dictating the participants involved. This is to say there should be a consensus on the idea and mutual agreement whereby all the parts are satisfied and peaceful with the made-up decision. The policy of cycle is the ways in which different courses of actions are stipulated in a definite manual portraying ways in which the faults will be taken into account whenever they arise. For example, illegal immigration. The EU policy is characterized by the community fast-tracking a feature that provides the that after the law has been formed and passed, then the commission takes the leading on the enforcing of the law making it effective. There is also the feature of intergovernmental relations where it factors in matters and needs of the different governments especially matters about defense and justice. The open coordination method is also a feature of the EU policy in which of recent, there is the idea of introducing an arbitrator in case there are differences between two parties. The open method is an integration of the law courts where a much lenient way is sorted to solve the issue at hand. It usually factors in the different national policies of the involved parties and helps in the amicable way of resolutions.
The main roles of the EU vary with the different need at hand concerning the different matters that the parties are involved (Spence 63). Among the main roles is the ensuring of the national cohesiveness and promotion of the democratic way of solving matters especially between nations. The inter-relation between the members of the EU is deemed beneficial to the individual members and this act is redistributed to other nations globally. This is the reason as to why the EU supports peace treats and suppresses vices like the nuclear technology and massive weaponry involvement. The EU is also projecting ways in which it can improve the overall economic standards globally through its different institutions that oversee resources distribution. There are several donations that the EU has been involved in the World Food Program. Security is among the main objectives of the EU whereby it supports the international peace agreements and involves itself in the defense matters.
The relations between EU and the United States is viable and quite promising, there are specific features that have been improving over time with mutual benefits in both countries. Trade is among the major improvements that have taken shape in their relations dominating all the world relations trades and is a backbone the cohesion of the two communities. Their approach to energy provisions and sustainability is similar, promoting understanding, transparency and good international relations between the two communities. The much is also evident in some of the EU policies like in the policy concern of defense. In several international duties, the US has been receiving approvals and sometimes mutual support from the EU in their offensive as well as defensive missions. These relations took a turn after the major fall out with the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Before then, US major relations with the Soviet Union were huge which was simply on the basis of the common enemy of the time, NAZISM. However, after the fall of Nazism, the US changed its relations with the emergence of the EU by the promotion of major ties with the UK. This major UK and US ties improved the EU and US ties as the UK was more influential as per the time.
The European Union relations with China have been improving over time as there has been the introduction of big agreements that are forecast in the future. The two are among the biggest budgets in the world and are much influential making it possible for the cooperation for the betterment of the entire community systems (Zhongqi 15). There are major agreements that have been made concerning their relations and introduction of major cooperation growth that goes down to the effect of their citizens’ involvement. These relations touch right from the peace enhancements promoting their cohesiveness and more trade between the two communities as well as touching on the peace of its international relations as well as their allies. They also impact on the sustainability of industrialization influencing economic growth whereby China benefits in the creation of jobs between the two relations. This will similarly enhance the EU growth and its impact and cooperation of the two promoting the EU international platform.
The Common Foreign and Security Policy is the body policy that is responsible for all the relations of the EU and the international bodies. All the relations and concerns in line with the activities of the EU is taken into account with a positive consideration yet specifically within the EU policies. The Common Foreign and Security Policy is basically concerned with the matters that are outside the membership of the European Union. These matters have to do with trade between other non-EU member countries that are trading with the member countries. The CFSP makes it possible for the mutual benefit of the two and all-inclusive nations that are trading or relating with the EU member countries. This relation also affects the financial funding program of the EU and non-EU members, especially the third world countries. CFSP ensures good relations between the countries involved and how to distribute the resources to the various foreign countries. This is majorly a budget that is formulated and with its policies follows up on the flow of these funds ensuring good cost-effective use of the funds. The decision to support whatever the plan is reached upon the agreement from the member state of the EU and the involvement of the Council of European Union. After the formation of the decisions, all other plans and elective decisions are seconded selectively from the selective members on the vote count in support of the idea. The CFSP is also in-charge of the foreign securities taking care of all the foreign involvement between the member countries and supporting the global overview of security matters. Diplomatic relations are also designed by the CSFP in correlation with the involved nation fostering peace deals within the global relations as well as its member states. In the case of a proposed cause of action, it is agreed upon from the CSFP and desired measure made. The CSFP is the body involved in the foreign policy formation
The major contributions made by the European Union agencies varies from the political perspective to economic gains whereby the member countries are politically advised and directed with basic policies making it peaceful of all the political processes. The effects of unethical political atmosphere are totally avoided by these policies, matters that make the government operation independent of the political gains. This means that all the government business and development will continue as normal despite the different political position either within the member state, the internal political divide or the external foreign policy affecting the EU member relation. The political divide will, therefore, be highly graded making the political process of a specific quality and gain. There shall, therefore, be no any possibility of political negative impact on the internal state politics. These agencies also safeguard the politics that concern the different positions and the decisions that are made within the European Union institutions ensuring they are cost effective decisions are factual.
The economic balance of the member states has grown very high and has impacted almost all the member countries positively making them economically stable. The member countries economic activities are supervised in relation to the EU policies making them cost effective and productive. Plans that will undermine the overall mutual gain of the members are discouraged and shot down by the institution's concern leaving out the major focus of cost effective programs.
The agencies also ensure the safety of the member countries by taking note of the political and ethical practices of the member countries that will not undermine the safety of its citizens. The life of the citizens is much focused by these agencies so that as much as the European Union is thriving, the eventual citizen benefit is also addressed. They also factor any effect of an outbreak, disease control, and resolve every basic way of fighting the outbreak with the best control measure. They also factor every possible way of overcoming the defect permanently. The agencies also factor the idea of adequate education to the citizens and resolve the best way of making the education systems quality and adequately available. Basic and higher level knowledge acquisition is also of great concern to the agencies making it a necessity to the nation as presented by the agencies through the concerned institutions. The agencies also ensure reliable systems of governance in the financial institutions within the member states. This move is to help ensure there is sustainability among the financial institutions and any unhealthy competition is discouraged. The agencies also scrutinize the financial benefits of the operational institutions such that none of the operative exploits its members in any way and by so doing, the agencies safeguard the citizens’ financial life.
The interest groups within the European Union functions have always been hypothetic with some of the interest focusing on the international relations. Most of the involved groups are interested in the legislative aspect of the EU and its institutions on how they are in cooperated within the different member countries. The international position of the European Union takes an attractive position within the groups that in most cases they keep checking what have been the reasons and the advantages of the massive growth and stability. It is with every concern that even scholars find it important to go beyond the hypothesis and find out on the exact values of the different foundational factors on the economic power of the European Union. The basic contradictory ideas about the different institutions of the EU do not confer with the true impact of the EU and this steers scholars and researchers on the basic true facts about the European Union. The law-making institutions of the EU are of great interest to researchers and the various groups which make them interested in the real work about legislation in the EU institutions.
The EU gets involved in many international actions that some of them impact the life of the member countries. The disagreement is basically on the sufficiency of the involvement factoring in the ability of the European Union. The EU gives financial aid to countries all over the world and supports the diplomatic rule of governance worldwide. These are some of the facts that make the public support the EU involvement in foreign activities. To some extent, it necessitates financial involvement which makes all the member countries be counted part of the plan. This supportive nod for the public makes the European Union get to external involvement with every force. The matters that undermine the human rights many a time undermine the life of the victims. Such cases are compelled of the massive involvement that the EU sends in diplomats for the resolutions. In some cases, the security measures needed would make it necessary that defensive forces in conjunction with the respective institution are involved.
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Spence, David. "EU Governance and Global Governance: New Roles for EU Diplomats." Global Governance and Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008, pp. 63-84.
Zhongqi, Pan. Conceptual Gaps in China-EU Relations: Global Governance, Human Rights and Strategic Partnerships. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.