The European Balance

The European balance New Year in 2002 brought me to the French Dijon where I initially owned the new common currency of the euro, 12 European countries. The sun is shining and the ATM is at the corner of the city square. There rises to the sky and there is a century-old architectural cathedral. This is very typical - very European - exactly - because I feel that I am at the edge of an ancient misty novel. Fashion wearing Yves St., it looks like a young woman.

The equilibrium of power in Europe refers to European international relations before the First World War that developed into the current European countries. The political concept of 1915 appeared in the peace days of Paris in 1815. It is often called the European national system. Its basic principle is that in most parts of the continent a single European power should not be allowed to gain supremacy and means that you can not achieve constant power.

Since 1870, the German empire led by Prussia (excluding Austria) has reorganized the dominant power of Europe as a controlling country. Over the next 20 years Otto von Bismarck proposed a treaty and succeeded in maintaining the balance of power by establishing many complex alliances between European countries like Three Alliances. After Otto von Bismarck resigned in the 1890s, the German empire's foreign policy proved extensive and the newly established alliance proved to be vulnerable, which in 1914 caused the First World War. One of the goals of the Treaty of Versailles, the main treaty after the First World War, was to abolish the superiority of the concept of 'equilibrium of power' and to replace it with the United Nations (worldwide).

Between the Vienna Conference (1815) and the Spring of People (1848), the equilibrium of power in Europe is reflected in regular diplomatic conferences that summarize European powers. In fact, these meetings are often blessed to Europe against the unilateral decision of personal national interests. All powers are faced with new nationalism, which easily leads to changes in the border, breaking the balance of Europe. The belief in the existence of "People's Spirit" brought about a new balance of power, which is based on the European People's Association, particularly among the Democratic Party, such as Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo) said "European in America". However, the revolutionary turmoil released by the "Spring People" in 1848 revealed the impossibility to divide the European Continent into clearly defined national states.