Tasks from online course: Europe and law Why were the individual's rights seen as important?? After the Second War World, the aftermath and horrous of the war showed to many European leaders the necessity of setting up rules and common organization among European states to avoid that terrible crimes that happened at war time. Why were economic and social cooperation seen as important ways forward? Because of economic and social cooperation amoung European states establish ways to enforce the rules that they are set up together by making-law organization from several treaties. It allows to states and individuals been confidence and knowing that internacional rules are beyond domestic law and also it exists mechanism for enforcement that ensure or tend to political and economic stability and improvenments for European states and people.