Supranational Governance in Changing Societies of European Union in the Last Decade

• Main Author: TULUS WARSITO
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta 2013-02-01
• Series: Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan
• Online Access: https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/jsp/article/view/121

As a supranational organization The European Union (EU) seems to compete the UN’s reputations.<br />UNO has more members since its scope is worldly, but UN does not issue its own currency while EU<br />has Euro. The Euro is the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded currency<br />in the world after the United States dollar. The currency is also used in a further many European<br />countries and consequently used daily by some 332 million Europeans. Additionally, over 175 million<br />people worldwide - including 150 million people in Africa - use currencies which are pegged to the<br />Euro. No other transnational organization has such a specific currency. Although not as a unified<br />military conventional power, EU has such a “Battlegroups” initiative, each of which is planned to be<br />able to deploy quickly about 1500 personnel. EU forces have been deployed on peacekeeping missions<br />from Africa to the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East. EU military operations are supported by a<br />number of bodies, including the European Defense Agency, European Union Satellite Centre and the<br />European Union Military Staff. In an EU consisting of 27 members, substantial security and defense<br />cooperation is increasingly relying on great power cooperation.Despite those organizational strengths,<br />only 27 of 57 European states are members of EU. And only 17 of 27 EU state members are using<br />Euro is their official currency. One prominent EU member like British stay tough with their own<br />Pound-sterling.This paper is set to learn more about: why as a Europe continent based organization,<br />EU state members are still less than half of European states? And why only 17 EU state members are<br />using Euro as their official currency?