A PLEA FOR MEMORY- DO WE REMEMBER ANYMORE WHAT THE EUROPEAN IDEA STANDS FOR
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28 March 2026
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15 July 2015
Abstract
FROM THE RUINS OF THE OLD CONTINENT ROSE HIGH IDEALS TO UNITE AS EQUALS AND PURSUE THE COURSE OF MUTUAL INTEREST VERSUS NATIONAL INTEREST, DEMOCRACY VERSUS TYRANNY, MULTILATERALISM VERSUS UNILATERALISM. IN THIS RESPECT, THE POWER FUL SPEECH OF WINSTON CHURCHILL OF 1946, CALLING FOR THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE, IS WELL KNOWN...IN ITS BUILDING AND EVOLUTION, THE EUROPEAN UNION OBSERVES, IN A VERY STRICT MANNER,THE PRINCIPLE OF MULTILATERALISM EVEN IF SOMETIMES THIS APPROACH MAY SEEM BUREAUCRATIC AND INSUFFICIENTLY TRANSPARENT. FROM ITS BEGGINING, WITH THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY IN 1951, THE SIX THEN MEMBER STATES AT THE VERY CORE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EUROPEAN RECONSTRUCTION AIMED AT DEVELOPING A MECHANISM TO INCREASE EUROPEAN UNITY THROUGH COOPERATION, INITIALLY, AT THE ECONOMIC LEVEL.
Keywords
EUROPE EUROPEAN IDEA
EUROPEAN UNION
REFORM
INTEGRATION
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