The fiasco of EDC project and the relaunching of European integration

Abstract

This article aims to examine the relaunching of European integration after the failure to establish the European Defense Community from the perspective of European integration and crisis. The crisis in the early days of European integration in the 1950s, the fiasco to create the European Defense Community and the European Political Community, was a driving force for a new leap forward in integration that led to the creation of the European Economic Community. Case studies from the mid-1950s will present implications for the prospects for the future of the European Union facing crises with new characteristics and the correlation between European integration and the crisis.