CNN News: 欧盟是什么？

What is the E.U.?

欧盟是什么?

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

欧盟是由多个国家构成的组织，这些国家共同创建一个单一的市场，允许商品、资本、服务以及人员在成员国之间流动，只有这些成员国遵守规则并支付相应的费用。

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.

但是对于欧盟的成立我们要往前追溯，我们需要追溯到第二次世界大战结束时期。经过六年的战争，欧洲被摧毁。欧洲的经济崩溃，由于之前的旧敌人们要重新创建贸易关系，不信任现象非常的普遍。

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

英国和德国面临着艰巨的任务，创建统一的利润。所以，法国和德国开始主要围绕钢铁和煤炭进行协商。

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, 共有六个国家：法国、比利时、西德、意大利、卢森堡和荷兰达成通过统一钢铁和煤炭缔交第一个协议, ,创造了欧洲煤钢共同体,或煤钢共同体。在1958年它们引入了用了欧洲经济共同体、欧洲经济共同体。这两个组织被视为现代欧盟的起源.直到1993年才开始采用欧盟的名字。

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，现在欧盟用一种常用的货币欧元，代表28各国家十多亿人后，估计每年14万亿欧元的GDP。但前提是前提:欧盟国家成员经济不存在冲突。