The Common Market and the drive towards
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:56 am
The collapse of the Eastern Bloc) which acted as a boost to European integration, an integration which could either be the spring-board for further internationalization or for the establishment of a European super-state. Guy Monnet, the financier appointed by De Gaulle as head of the Plan for Modernization and Equipment, the embryo Common Market, told the editor of.
The Economist in 1950 that his brainchild, the European Coal and Steel Agreement, was intended as the first stage in the "setting up of a neutralised group in Europe", a power base independent of the super- powers. Idealism was there from the beginning but nationalism was as strong an element in the EEC as it has been in the United Nations. The Luxembourg agreement of 1966, which disallowed majority voting in the Council of Ministers, delayed the destruction of the nation state in Western Europe by decades.
A united Europe also owes a great deal to Konrad Adenauer phone number list and the rejection of communism. The old Catholic ideal of a Europe of the Faith permeates the European Community and the old nostalgia of a resurrected Roman Empire persists. It is no coincidence that the founding treaty took place in Rome. At the same time, the force of economic liberalism has become so powerful, that the socialistic element of the Common Market, with its subsidies, especially its subsidies for agriculture, may well be swept away. As ex-Marxist French writer Regis Debray has pointed out in writings calling for an independent socialist Europe, Europe is now entering a free market reality behind socialist rhetoric.
The Economist in 1950 that his brainchild, the European Coal and Steel Agreement, was intended as the first stage in the "setting up of a neutralised group in Europe", a power base independent of the super- powers. Idealism was there from the beginning but nationalism was as strong an element in the EEC as it has been in the United Nations. The Luxembourg agreement of 1966, which disallowed majority voting in the Council of Ministers, delayed the destruction of the nation state in Western Europe by decades.
A united Europe also owes a great deal to Konrad Adenauer phone number list and the rejection of communism. The old Catholic ideal of a Europe of the Faith permeates the European Community and the old nostalgia of a resurrected Roman Empire persists. It is no coincidence that the founding treaty took place in Rome. At the same time, the force of economic liberalism has become so powerful, that the socialistic element of the Common Market, with its subsidies, especially its subsidies for agriculture, may well be swept away. As ex-Marxist French writer Regis Debray has pointed out in writings calling for an independent socialist Europe, Europe is now entering a free market reality behind socialist rhetoric.