If the European Union were a single country it would be the world’s third-most-populous nation—behind India and China—and boast the second-largest economy, behind the U.S. The bloc has evolved a central administrative apparatus that is leading to ever greater political integration and that increasingly attempts to exert its influence on the rest of the world.
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