The United Nations and European Union

• focuses solely on European nations

European Union

• global scale

The United Nations

• organization of all sovereign nations

• representatives meet to discuss major world issues.

United Nations

• Created after WWII

  • Preceded by the League of Nations after WWI

• Purpose:

  • promote peace

  • prevent war

  • encourage development of all nations

• UN Security Council

  • UN peacekeepers to areas of conflict.

  • Not always effective

UN History and Purpose

• focuses on the economic and political union of European countries ONLY

• Not all European countries are participants

  • ​Great Britain (2020)

The European Union

• Boost the European economy

• Unifying the European population politically

• Member nations have good​s and people pass freely

• All use the Euro​ as a common currency

European Union Goals