ABSTRACT
The failure of the European Defence Community (EDC), based on the French veto of August 1954, cast a dark shadow over the entire integration process for many European leaders, but there were a few who insisted on returning to the economic growth and development path. This chapter examines and analysis the conduct of the relance diplomacy and explain the outcomes. The multi-party negotiation management of Paul-Henri Spaak was the overarching leadership that provided a central and forceful direction that structured a process which might be termed a guided interaction. His key role was to transmit a sense of greater dedication to his workers and a political will to the governmental representatives that successful diplomacy had to be the final result. In fighting intransigence with pragmatism and insisting on the necessity of two interrelated treaties, Spaak worked for the creation of a major frontier-shattering economic accord that would bind Little Europe together as a unit of global significance.
