After WWI, Europe’s leaders established greater economic ties to help prevent future continental conflict and promote mutual prosperity. Now, more than half a century later, the EU faces the biggest financial crisis in its history with its future under great uncertainty. There was the Greek crisis in 2011, and then the Brexit in 2016. The required video: Imperfect Union: The Eurozone in Crisis introduces the history and structure of the EU. Your writing should discuss/reflect EU’s structural problems, how the 2008 global recession contributed to the development of the euro crisis, and conclude in the last paragraph how can European Union leaders prevent the collapse of the common currency? https://wwvv.youtube.com/watch?v=LpwpliU-5nO&t=34s
