VL IB: European Policy Making

History of European Integration

What was the first Set-Back in European Integration?

  • European Integration initiative concerning a European Defence Community (EDC)
  • June 1950: armed conflict broke out in Korea
  • Possibility of German rearmament alarmed its neighbours (esp. France)
  • Monnet: sectoral integration as a way out of this dilemma -> EDC modelled upon the ECSC
  • EDC initiative failed due to the Frenc National Assembly refusal to ratify the Treaty in 1954

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