The European Community (EC), Social, Financial, and Culturally Divided Within

Introduction

The European Union is one of the islands of prosperity in a globalizing world. Its member countries are rich and gifted both in terms of economic measures such as the gross national product and in terms of social and cultural conditions of life such as health care, housing, life expectancy and access to education to the privileged places of this world. Yet the harsh reality is the fact that the EU is not a homogeneous entity, but rather characterized by considerable disparities between its member countries and regions. These are of particular ...