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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling

history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

Today's interview is with Kieran Klaus Patel, who's Professor of European History at Ludwig Maximilion's University at Munchin.

His latest book, Project Europe, a history, reflects on the development of the European Union over the post-war

decades, considering whether it really did bring peace to the continent and what impact it's had on

economic growth. He discussed these questions and others with BBC History Magazine editor, Rob Atar.

Kieran, to begin with, could you just remind our listeners of how what we now call the European

Union came to be in the first place?

That is actually one of the most difficult questions, because it took so many steps to

establish what we now know at the European Union. The first institution that was built was

the European Coal and C. Community that was built was the European coal and sea community

...