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 * European Union**

__Alliances__:
 * The Union's membership began with six standing countries; Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands. This later grew to the twenty seven alliances.
 * =====France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.=====
 * All alliances must follow The Copenhagen Criteria, in which each country's democracy must; respect human rights, have a stabilized economy fit enough for competition in the E.U, and acceptance of obligations of the membership (must recognize their duty and commitment to the agreement).
 * EU citizens have rights, such as the right to free movement. This means one member state can move to another, and settle in another EU state. (referred to as states, actually countries).
 * Each EU state is responsible for themselves in some way. They establish their own authority in numerous places (ex. defense).

__Weapons Trade:__


 * The E.U's council has a common position (CP), where they oversee, improve, and control international arms brokering (negotiating and agreement).
 * One of their main goals is to prevent weapon traders from disobeying nor neglecting the restrictions on arms exports enforced by the E.U, U.N, or O.S.C.E.
 * Another goal is the cooperation of the Article 1 of the European Union Code of Conduct on Arms Exports (C.C.A.E), in which it states that members must be regulated on all activities, according to the legal framework of weapon trade and distribution.

__Nuclear Proliferation:__
 * Up to date in field of nuclear weapons. The E.U was caught several times toying with nuclear physics and testing, such as in 2007, there was a massive bust in Slovakia, where they discovered more than a pound of powderized uranium.
 * In 1991, they began devising a treaty consisting of the fact that will grant law enforcement officials the power and freedom to chase suspects even across the border.

__Foreign Aid:__
 * Food Aid is given to people in extreme need (such as faminized countries or drought stricken), and to the people struck by a man-made or natural disaster.
 * The E.U carrys out help not alone, but with the help of NGOs (non governmental organizations). The E.U's office ECHO helps gather resources, delivers emergency items, and funds and creates the organizations.

__Food:__
 * Has an international food policy called the F.P.I
 * The E.U's food strategy has three main focus points;
 * 1) Legislation of safety of food and animal feeding
 * 2) Based decisions on scientific advice and evidence
 * 3) Enforce and Control
 * The E.U's Food Safety Strategy: Not only does it protect and enforce safe food policies, but also the safety of animals and plant health. It ensures that the food can be traced back to the farm, as it moves out and ships, even if it has been sent out across the internal EU borders, so trade is not backed up and the public has choice and variety in the types of foods.
 * They control the supplements/minerals inserted into food, and control wether or not food has; pesticides, food supplements, food colourings, hormones, or antibiotics. They also extend their concern to food packaging (like packed in plastic).
 * They are responsible for the labeling of food, determining and identifying any ingredients that are commonly allergenic to people, and explaining the content of food labels (ex. low fat, no trans fat, high fiber, etc).