European Union's Purpose
Tue, 2016-06-07 22:19
News Staff
By Tom Haughey
We generally think of the EU as a free trade block, and it is. That's not, however, the purpose for which it was created. In the early 1950s a group of European movers and shakers got together as a result of the carnage they'd seen during two horrific world wars. They wanted to do whatever they could to prevent a third one.