Congress of Vienna Fixing Europe?

          After Napoleon was defeated for the second time the leaders of Europe gathered at the city of Vienna and discussed about what to do to fix the Europe that remained. In class we watched a video about Metternich, the emperor of Austria, try to discuss an agreement with Napoleon, who just wanted peace, for him to stop his conquest. Napoleon declined and then he was eventually defeated. We then talked about and took notes about three major problems. All problems had to do with one major one, what should people do when their power is threatened?

Congress of Vienna
http://www.emersonkent.com/historic_documents/congress_of_vienna_1815.htm

          One problem they had to solve was, what changes should be made to the European map. They decided to give some more land to Russia, Prussia other great powers and they put two new countries that had a solid government and leader bordering France. With these expansions they also created a Balance of Power in Europe. This gave Russia, Austria, Prussia, and France the most power in Europe. They gave France the power because the emperors of the other three empires thought Napoleon was the real threat not France as a whole. France did have to return all of the stolen artwork they had and they had to pay for the repairs caused by Napoleon across Europe. This was one of the solutions that the congress came to, to try and fix Europe.

Map of the new Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna

            I think this solution that they used would only be good as a temporary solution. Its a good temporary solution because it gave the strongest empires of that time control while Europe is fixed and the two countries that made sure France didn't try to conquer Europe again was a good idea. However, it's not a permanent solution. The main reason is because the territory that all the major empires gained are not necessarily a good thing. For example Poland was a country by itself, but because of the congress they had to obey the Russian leader. Also the map did not allow the unification of Italy or Germany,  both wanted national unification and no more foreign rulers. For those reasons I do not think this was the best possible solution.