Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.
Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.
This is an era of violent peace.
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would never again be a pan-European war and to create the conditions for a new European prosperity after the destruction wrought by the war against the Nazis. The E.U. has admirably succeeded at both.
Europe has such an expansive history.
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.
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