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Historical events in the European integration process (1945–2009)

  • > Introduction
  • > 1945–1949 The pioneering phase
  • > 1950–1954 The formation of the community of Europe
    • > The birth of the community of Europe
    • > The organisation of common defence
      • > The European Defence Community
        • > The need for German rearmament
        • > The idea of the EDC
        • > The refusal to ratify the EDC Treaty
      • > Western European Union
    • > Plans for European sectoral union
    • > Nordic cooperation
    • > The beginnings of decolonisation and the emergence of the non-aligned states
    • > Relations between the two blocs
  • > 1955–1957 The European revival and the Rome Treaties
  • > 1958–1968 Successes and crises
  • > 1969–1979 Completion, deepening and widening
  • > 1980–1986 Enlargement to the south and the Single European Act
  • > 1987–1997 The European Union in a Europe in the throes of change
  • > 1998–2009 The unification of Europe

The European Defence Community

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The European Defence Community


The European Defence Community (EDC) was without doubt one of the most ambitious projects launched by the proponents of European unity in the 1950s. The attempt to form a European army, barely five years after the end of the Second World War, was a highly symbolic act indeed. However, defence of the homeland was considered a fundamental aspect of sovereignty that few countries were prepared to give up.

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