More than six decades ago, the European Movement's founder Jean Monnet shared his vision for the region's nascent union, prescribing money as a means to heal the wounds left by two world wars. The fusion of Europe's economic ties, he said, would compel its nations to fuse their sovereignty as well into that of a single European state. To the Frenchman, a federal Europe was the natural progression of the bloc's newfound stability. A collection of like-minded countries whose shared goals were so clear they would willingly surrender their own governments for the group's greater good. That was 1952. A time when the future held great promise after the horrors of the past and anything seemed possible -- even creating a new pseudo country. A place now known as the European Union. Fast forward to the present day and, though the EU does have some shared organs of government, like a commission and parliament, it certainly is n't the set of united states Monnet hoped for. Ones with the same deep-seated convictions and beliefs. The glue holding their common ideologies together came unstuck with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since then, a crisis among countries sharing the euro has reopened old wounds. Ironically, instead of bringing nations together, their finances have threatened to tear them apart. This leaves us with one fundamental question: if the EU's main task is no longer to