Striking Similarities: The Origins of the European Economic Community

David Blake

doi:10.22158/ape.v4n1p1

Abstract

A Plan for a European Economic Community was developed at the University of Berlin in 1942. There are striking similarities with the European Economic Community that was introduced in 1957—and which became the foundation stone of the European Union. Particularly striking is the innate hostility both to liberal economic values and to democracy—a hostility that permeates the EU to this very day.

Highlights

A Plan for a European Economic Community was first proposed in 1942
A Plan for a European Economic Community was developed at the University of Berlin in 1942
The principal Founding Fathers of the European Project, Monnet and Schuman, never acknowledged the Plan when they set up the European Economic Community

Summary

Introduction

A Plan for a European Economic Community was first proposed in 1942. At its heart is a Customs Union and a Single Market. Abstract A Plan for a European Economic Community was developed at the University of Berlin in 1942.

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Conclusion