Heavy Armor: Challenger 1, Leopard 2, EU Goliath.Infantry: EU Heavy Infantry, EU Commandos, Sappers.Single-Use Units: EU Bunker, Air Defence Tower, FH 105, FH 155, Peacekeepers.The European Union's available units are: From the origins and users of the units sent and available to the peacekeepers in the former United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Slovakia, and Poland are all potential or definite contributors. Apart from basic common units like infantry, commandos, and single-use units, the EU's forces are all unique from those of the American factions. The European Union has come a long way from its home territory and the member nations that have contributed have sent some of Europe's most advanced military technology. It borders New England's New York and Ohio Valley to the north and east respectively, and The Confederacy's Carolinas to the south.ĮU tanks and infantry under fire from Apache helicopters. The European Union starts off with a single territory, the Eastern Shenandoah. The European Union's effort was seen as an unwelcome intrusion by many former American citizens, and with only one territory to begin their campaign in North America with, the peacekeepers' position was already becoming precarious when the war formally began in 2014. Though the initial landings had taken a considerable amount of the territory surrounding Washington, it paled in comparison to the land held by the other factions in the Second American Civil War. Left with no choice but to forcibly put an end to the chaos and re-establish the United States on their own, the European Union's peacekeepers began the process of trying to defeat the other six factions.
EU helicopters and trucks reached central Washington, D.C. and surrounding land in the former states of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. After the vote passed, EU peacekeepers crossed the Atlantic Ocean and occupied the ruins of Washington D.C. on 20 January 2013, it was obvious that events had completely spiraled out of control.Ĭoncerned with securing international interests, the EU's member states held an emergency vote on whether to send a peacekeeping force to North America to restore the United States. After a low-yield nuclear weapon detonated at ground level destroyed Washington, D.C. The threat of losing the United States was a fearsome one, promising to destabilize the rest of the world politically and economically. The European Union was alarmed at the events taking place during David Jefferson Adams' presidency.
The European Union had 28 members by 2013, the most recent to join being Croatia. Since then numerous other nations have joined, including East Germany by default when it reunified with the West in 1990. Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands were the founding members. The European Union traces its beginnings to the Treaty of Rome in 1958.
American resentment has grown since the EU decided to expand its role in the war." The EU voted to re-establish the union of states to prevent the spreading chaos. After open hostilities broke out, the war compounded the growing instability in the world due to the loss of such a large and prolific market. "The European Union peacekeeping force currently resides in a single territory made up of the former states of Maryland, Delaware and parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The EU does not field a single one of the units used by the other factions, apart from basic common units like single-use units and infantry. The European Union is the only faction with the explicitly-stated goal of restoring the United States, though the only way it can do this is through the use of military force. It is one of two non-American factions in the game, and the only one that is playable in the campaign- the other is Russia, which is playable in the multiplayer. The European Union is a faction in Shattered Union.