Why Europe isn’t one country

Why Europe never united and why the EU was created.

• Why isn’t Europe one country?

  Geography, the Reformation, nationalism and two world wars – the full story of why 44 countries share one continent, and why the question is live again.

• Why was the European Union created?

  The EU was created to make war between France and Germany impossible, by pooling coal and steel in 1950. How the Schuman plan grew into the European Union.

• Everyone who tried to unite Europe – and why they failed

  Rome, Charlemagne, the Habsburgs, Napoleon, Hitler – five failed unifications, one pattern. Why force never held Europe together, and what finally did.