Diagram showing the functioning of the institutions provided for by the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC), the placing of Member States’ armed forces (European Defence Forces) at the disposal of the Community, and the link between the EDC and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).

On 23 June 1952, Dirk Stikker, Netherlands Foreign Minister, sends a note to the President of the Second Chamber in which he explains the issues surrounding the Treaty establishing a European Defence Community.

On 29 May 1952, the French daily newspaper Le Monde describes the ceremony held to mark the signing of the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC), which took place two days earlier in the Clock Room at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris.

On 5 August 1953, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel considers the interconnection between the debates on the reunification of Germany, the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the establishment of a European Defence Community (EDC).

On 30 May 1952, commenting on the signing, on 27 May 1952 in Paris, of the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC), the Bavarian daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung attacks the contradictions and weaknesses of the plan for a European army.

On 15 December 1953, in connection with the debates on the European Defence Community (EDC), François Mauriac, a member of the French Academy, writes an article for the French daily newspaper Le Figaro in which he emphasises the importance of France’s role on the international stage.

In the run-up to the German federal elections in September 1953, the Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands) criticises the policy pursued by the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and condemns the plan for a European Defence Community (EDC).

In September 1953, as the German federal elections are held, the All-German People’s Party (Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei) calls on its voters not to support the planned European Defence Community (EDC).

On 6 November 1953, the French daily newspaper Le Figaro prints side by side the arguments of the opponents and the replies from the supporters of the Treaty establishing a future European Defence Community (EDC).

On 20 August 1952, Theodor Blank, a Christian Democrat member of the German Bundestag and creator of the Dienststelle Blank, the section of the Chancellery responsible for matters relating to the strengthening of Allied forces in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), welcomes the treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC).