European Union

Formalized in 1993 (but operating as an economic powerhouse for decades before that, the European Union (EU) was Europe's primary governmental representational organization throughout the pre-warp era. Encompassing on average 28 nations throughout its history, it was an enthusiastic partner with the United States of America (USA) when the Western Alliance (WA) was formed in 2002 to take advantage of the the technological surge of the post-Augment era. When the Alliance formed a large agency of the New United Nations (NUN) in 2018, the EU's identity transferred with it (though the USA remained a separate identity). The NUN and the EU/WA remained closely knit throughout the first half of the 21st century, up until the devastation of WWIII in 2153. The EU never regained an independent face, as the NUN and the later United Earth Defense Pact worked tirelessly to help the continent recover.

Agencies

• European Space Agency (ESA) (1975-2008): assets transferred into the Western Alliance Space Agency

Assets

• Guiana Space Centre: spaceport

Notes

• As the European Hegemony was founded in 2123, the Union was either folded into it or had collapsed prior to it. If it had collapsed, then it makes more sense that it did so prior to First Contact and the growth of the planetary "economy" that followed. The term "hegemony" rings as a pejorative to me and is unseemly for a post-FC democratic movement. However, I will "blind" myself to the definition as a "political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states" and instead view it as an enhanced EU acting as an umbrella with a greater sphere of influence over Europe, the Mediterranean, and north Africa.