ABSTRACT
The issue of international integration in Georges Scelle's thought intersected with the debate on the possibility of establishing a union of European countries. Scelle's answer was that a European union would be desirable because it would enable greater agility and efficiency in dealing with issues that European countries in particular were concerned with. Among the ideas circulating in France in the 1930s on how Europe should be restructured to ensure a stable peace and a rebirth of European culture, it is also worth mentioning the reflections of Alexandre Marc. The decided adversaries of the European federation would include "those whose power is immediately connected to the existence of national States", namely, the ruling political classes and top echelons of the state bureaucracy, both civilian and military. The projects for European unification that were elaborated between the end of the First World War and the breakout of the Second World War differed in terms of the political-institutional objective they pursued.
