Purpose of the EU

I started attending the lecture series offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Texas at El Paso.  I use the lecture and the QA afterwards as a way to stimulate my thinking on a topic.

On February 14th, Professor Kruszewski talked on the European Union.  The points he made got me thinking that the EU was established to facilitate travel among member nations--by persons desirous of visiting relatives in some nearby country and by persons in need of a job!  This apparently was an early attempt at contemporary globalization, whereby workers flow from country to country, thereby keeping wages lower than they otherwise would be.  Business is always looking for the cheapest labor that will do the job it intends.

I think the Professor mentioned that Germany was hoping more would come from the organization.  After all, a currency was put into circulation, one in which the United Kingdom still  has reservations, preferring to back the English pound.  No wonder poorer countries in Eastern Europe and in Northern Europe want to join the Union.  But I think the Europeans, e.g., France, were disappointed when their countries became flooded with Moslems from all over!  Clearly, as I mentioned in the QA session, the EU will never accept Turkey as a full-fledged member for that reason.