In both areas, Europeans were mainly seeking economic gain for markets in their homeland.
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euroThe common currency for the European Union (EU) is the Euro (EUR).
which rulers would lead European countries.
Western European democracies have several things in common. Obviously, they all hold free elections. But most also have a parliamentary system with a Prime Minister as head-of-state. Most also have membership in the European Union and NATO.
The most common social problems in Africa over the past fifty years have been genocide with the tribes within the continent and the problems with racial tension in South Africa between the British and the native South Africans.
Britain joined the European Economic Community (EEC), as it then was, with effect from 1 Janaury 1973. The EEC has since then evolved into the EU.