Endvidere søger Den Europæiske Union nu at uddybe sin enhed, mens den samtidig udvider antallet af medlemmer, en særlig vanskelig opgave, som enhver, der studerer De Forenede Staters historie i det 19. århundrede, kan minde os om.
Furthermore, the European Union is now seeking to deepen its unity while, at the same time, enlarging its membership: an especially difficult task, as any student of the nineteenth-century history of the United States can remind us.