I lived in Europe for a few years, the E.U. is very upsetting. I feel bad for all those little countries selling out to get in. It makes travel and visas easy and it has a few other upsides, but for the most part it is very frightening. Anyway, it is a completely different thing than the U.N. The E.U. is more like Europe's version of the United States. Opening boarders and uniting with one currency. Travel in Europe used to be more of a pain because of currency conversion and entering a new country every few kilometer. Even though half of the letters are the same in the two, they really do serve two different purposes.