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Which country does the flag belong to?Where is its capital city?

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Where do these countries locate?

9A cafe house in Paris/ Roboppy@Wikipedia/CC-Zero

The planned European Extremely Large Telescope/Swinburne

Astronomy Productions/ESO@European Southern Observatory/CC BY

EUROPE NOW

Erasmus students in Manchester, the United Kingdoms/ Photo: Facebook ID: MMUnion Erasmus & International 

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Destruction in a Berlin street (1945)/ Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R09876 / CC-BY-SA

A parade of German tanks in Paris (1941)/ Bundesarchiv, N 1576 Bild-007/ Herrmann, Ernst/ CC-BY-SA

The French and Belgian troops occupied the German Ruhr region in 1923/ No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit @Imperial War Museums/ CC BY

EUROPE THEN

11Schuman Declaration / European Union

BUILDING LASTING PEACE AFTER WWIIThe Schuman Declaration - 9 May 1950

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The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), 1951

The European Economic Community (EEC), 1957

The European Union (EU), 1993

DEVELOPMENT SINCE THE SCHUMAN DECLARATION

1. An Expanding Agenda (Structure)

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Ireland

Germany

Finland

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

EUROJUST EUROPOL (European Police)

Common European market: Free movement of goods, capital, services, and

people

ECSC

Coal bituminous/ Minerals in Your World@ wikipedia/CC-Zero

Steel wire rope/ Johannes Hemmerlein@ wikipedia/BY-SA

Vehicle License Plates

1. An Expanding Agenda (Matters involved)

14European Union Enlargement/ Ssolbergj@Wikipedia/ CC BY-SA

2. An Enlargement of Membership from 6 to 28

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1990 1995 2004 2007 2013

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Herman Van Rompuy

President of the European Council

 José Manuel Barroso

President of the European

Commission Martin SchulzPresident of the

European Parliament

In 2012, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the European Union because "for over six decades [it has] contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".

Award ceremony of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the EU

/ P-022380/00-07@European Union, 2013/ CC BY

SIGNIFICANCE

17Ana Fanlo Vicente (12, Spain): winner of the “Peace, Europe, Future” drawing competition

CONCLUSION

Can this mode of building peace be applied in Asia?

An “Asian Union”perhaps? (Think about Japan and China)

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Anti-China Protest in Tyoko/ TAKA@P.P.R.S@Flickr/ CC BY-SA

Anti-Japan Protest in Shanghai/ acina@Flickr/ CC BY-NC

REFLECTION