ABSTRACT
Indeed, when considering perspective, the shortcomings are also apparent if the current situation is compared to the aspirations of the founding fathers. Their motivation was not the price of eggs, bacon or steel, but rather a revolution in international behaviour [Nicoll and Salmon, Understanding the European Communities]. Considering that world peace can be safeguarded only by creative efforts commensurate with the dangers that threaten it… Resolved to substitute for age-old rivalries the merging of their essential interests; to create, by establishing an economic community, the basis for a broader and deeper community among peoples long divided by bloody conflicts [Preamble to the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty 1951].
