Answer to Question 1
Answer: The European Union agreed to eventually create the following: a single market for goods, services, capital, and labor; a single currency and central bank; common and integrated infrastructure systems; regional policy; social policy and environmental policy.
Answer to Question 2
Answer: Not all states succeed in unifying their people into one nation-state. When a state is split by regional or other allegiances it is experiencing subnationalism. These subnational identifications may be strong enough to foster a separatist movement that seeks to exercise its self-determination and form a new country, often leading to civil war.
Inheritance of hemophilia in European royalty
Monstrous people from distant lands depicted in a fifteenth-century European woodcut.
The declining age of menarche over the past 150 years has been measured in many European countries,
European Footholds along the Atlantic, 1584–1650
A mound of buffalo skulls. In 1870 an estimated 30 million buffalo roamed the plains; by 1900 there
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam (restored), ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.