Dawn of Europe

For most of us, the word ‘European’ brings to mind a number of nations coexisting in a more or less single land area bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean to the south, and the North Pole to the north. The boundaries to the east are a little more diffuse. Since the inception of the European Economic Community (now the European Union) in the 1960’s, these nations have been bound together not only geographically but also economically, politically and to an extent, socially.