Blueprints of Hope

Blueprints

The Relaunching of Europe

After the European Defence Community failed to get ratified in French parliament in 1954, economic integration remained as the prime vehicle for European unity. In this blueprint, written in the second half of the 1950s, one can observe significant changes from five years earlier: the ‘common market’ is a completely obvious and natural concept, and important debates for the future of Europe now shifts toward cooperation in atomic energy and foreign policy.

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The blueprint is courtesy of the WCC Archives in Geneva and republished here with permission.

 

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