CNN News: 歐盟是什么？

What is the E.U.?

歐盟是什么?

The European Union is a group of countries that work together to create a single market, to allow goods, capital, services and people to move between the member states, as long as they follow the rules and they pay the entry fee

歐盟是由多個國家構(gòu)成的組織，這些國家共同創(chuàng)建一個單一的市場，允許商品、資本、服務(wù)以及人員在成員國之間流動，只有這些成員國遵守規(guī)則并支付相應(yīng)的費用。

But we`re getting ahead of ourselves. To start this story, we need to go right back to the end of World War II. After six years of fighting, Europe was decimated. Economies were collapsing and mistrust was rife as old enemies face the prospect of recreating trade ties.

但是對于歐盟的成立我們要往前追溯，我們需要追溯到第二次世界大戰(zhàn)結(jié)束時期。經(jīng)過六年的戰(zhàn)爭，歐洲被摧毀。歐洲的經(jīng)濟崩潰，由于之前的舊敵人們要重新創(chuàng)建貿(mào)易關(guān)系，不信任現(xiàn)象非常的普遍。

France and previous occupiers Germany faced the difficult task of creating a unity for profit. So, they started talking, mainly about steel and coal.

英國和德國面臨著艱巨的任務(wù)，創(chuàng)建統(tǒng)一的利潤。所以，法國和德國開始主要圍繞鋼鐵和煤炭進行協(xié)商。

In 1951, a total of six countries, France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands reached their first accord by uniting the steel and coal industries, creating the European Coal and Steel Community, or the ECSC. They later introduce the European Economic Community, the EEC, in 1958. These two organizations are seen as the origin of the modern European Union, that wouldn`t adopt its new name until 1993.

在1951年, 共有六個國家：法國、比利時、西德、意大利、盧森堡和荷蘭達成通過統(tǒng)一鋼鐵和煤炭締交第一個協(xié)議, ,創(chuàng)造了歐洲煤鋼共同體,或煤鋼共同體。在1958年它們引入了用了歐洲經(jīng)濟共同體、歐洲經(jīng)濟共同體。這兩個組織被視為現(xiàn)代歐盟的起源.直到1993年才開始采用歐盟的名字。

More than six decades later, the European Union now represents more than half a billion people across 28 countries and with a common currency, the euro, which generates an estimated 14 trillion euros in GDP per year. The premise: countries who are economically linked are less likely to have conflicts.

60多年后，現(xiàn)在歐盟用一種常用的貨幣歐元，代表28各國家十多億人后，估計每年14萬億歐元的GDP。但前提是前提:歐盟國家成員經(jīng)濟不存在沖突。