They use aggression and energy to build their fast-growing economies. Six European countries, including Germany, France and Italy, came together in 1958 to form an economic association. Since then the Common Market has grown and today it includes 15 members. The European Union is a very emotional topic. People either support it, or are strongly against it.
Monetary union is probably one of the biggest problems facing individual nations.
But it is slowly becoming a reality, even though we don't want our national currency to be replaced by the euro - or ecu.