ABSTRACT
The aim of achieving an ‘ever closer union’ between European states, as is literally mentioned in the Treaty of Rome in 1957, evokes the aim of forming a ‘more perfect union’ included at the very beginning of the 1787 constitution of the United States of America. In a similar way to the American case the union was developed mainly as a self-protecting mechanism for newly independent states against the former colonial power and other foreign threats, that is, for reasons of war there were also some military reasons for the initial project of building the United States of Europe.
