THE CONTINENT OF MASTERS DECISION-MAKING POWERS OVER EUROPE

Abstract

Europe has been ruled in the past centuries from different centers depending on the dominant power, from within or outside the continent, from: Rome, Venice, Madrid, Paris, London, Vienna, Berlin and finally from Moscow and Washington. Now with the formation of the European Union, it seemed that the center was established in Brussels, but this city is far from having decision-making power, often: Berlin, Frankfurt, Washington, Paris or more recently: Istanbul, Beijing, Warsaw, Cairo, Jerusalem or Dubai are getting better rated, Brussels being only the scene in which the decisions already established in other centers are presented, without reaching a central leadership dominated by a single state.

Keywords

• spheres of influence
• domination
• decision-making centers
• great powers
• alliance