European Union has a historical cassus belli on Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and North Africa

Alexander the great's empire at its peak covered the entirety of the middle east and parts of Egypt.

The Roman empire at its peak covered North Africa

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The Byzantine empire did not cover any new territory.

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The Ottoman empire clearly covered Saudi Arabia.

All these empires are in descending order of which empire took over the previous empire. With Turkey being the replacement of the Ottoman empire once it broke apart.

The European Union as the natural successor of the Roman and the Greek empires before it, has a natural casus belli to take over North Africa and the Middle east along with Pakistan and Afghanistan via ancestral land claims.

Today, embarrassingly enough, the EU is the smaller in size than any of the empires that it has replaced.

The Greek empire, Roman empire, Byzantine empire, Ottoman empire, were all larger than current day EU at their peak.

Based on historical data we can see that for the dream of uniting all of the European people under one banner to come true, a project that was started in the 20th century in earnest, the EU would have to extend itself all the way into North Africa, the middle east, and the western half of Russia. It is only after assimilating these parts of the world that the EU integration project will truly and officially be complete.

Today, the European Union expansion project is only 10% complete based on land area compared against the total size of Europe, the middle east, and North Africa.

Based on the historical trends of the European continent, the land area of an empire on the European continent peaks within 200-250 years of the rise of a new empire and the empire perishes within another 200-250 years.

The EU having formed in 1991, currently has based on previous trends, till the year 2200 for it to reach its peak size.

The last member to join the EU was croatia in 2013.

The next members are expected to join the EU in between 2025-2030.

Rest assured, that based on the history of European empires of the past, that EU expansion is far from over even after it has assimilated all the current candidates into the greater union.