Am 1. September 1954 kommentiert die belgische Tageszeitung Le Soir die Reaktionen Paul Henri Spaaks auf das Scheitern der Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft (EVG).
On 20 September 1954, the Central Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF) sharply criticises French policy for the failure of the European Defence Community (EDC) and calls for the creation of a federal Europe.
In 1954, the bulletin of the National Committee for the Defence of French Unity and the French Union leads with the serious economic consequences of the Treaty establishing a European Defence Community (EDC) and offers a point-by-point criticism of the arguments put forward by advocates of the Paris Treaty.
On 4 October 1954, after the French National Assembly refuses to ratify the Treaty on the European Defence Community (EDC), the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk speculates on the question of European defence.
On 5 March 1954, French socialist politician Guy Mollet and Belgian socialist statesman Paul-Henri Spaak speak at a meeting held by the Mouvement Démocratique et Socialiste pour les États-Unis d’Europe (Democratic and Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe — MDSEUE) in Paris. Their addresses summarise their positions on the European Defence Community (EDC) and the EDC Treaty, especially regarding the creation of a European army, disarmament, the defence and security of Europe, and the integration and reunification of Germany. Both addresses reveal examples of overlapping initiatives and constraints on the path towards European integration.
„Ob mit oder ohne EVG ... ‚Deutsches Kontingent ...im Gleichschritt ...Marsch!‘“ Am 19. August 1954 illustriert der deutsche Karikaturist Ernst Maria Lang die Befürchtungen des französischen Ministerpräsidenten und Außenministers Pierre Mendès France hinsichtlich der geplanten Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft (EVG) und der Wiederbewaffnung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD). Trotz der Versuche des Ministerpräsidenten, die Wiedererrichtung einer deutschen Armee zu verhindern, scheint diese unabwendbar.
