What has now settled in name as the European Union has throughout the decades of the 20th century been known as first, the European Economic Community, and then the European Community. ‘the European Union of today is a result of the process that began over half a century ago with the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community.’ This was formed by Belgium, France, Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg and Germany with the idea that after a long and costly second world war, this would bring peace and prosperity for their present and the future. This was formed in 1952. Merely six years later much had changed. By 1958 the treaty of Rome was in force, the European Economic Union had been formed and as said in EU-upplysningen (2008) ‘virtually everyone in the member states was given the same opportunity to move between countries, which previously had only applied to those working in the coal and steel industry.’ This was the first impact of the EU on their workers. Furthermore, their next objective was to create a common market nowadays known and transformed as the single market, where there is free movement of people around Europe as well as less or no barriers to trade, meaning free movement of goods and services