Determinantes do projeto de integração regional da Europa: o eixo franco-germânico e o papel dos estados unidos

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the role of two determinants of Europe's regional integration project after the end of the Second World War: relations between France and Germany, the largest European economies, and where the greatest continental historical rivalries were concentrated; and the United States' support for reconstruction and the European project of regional integration in the geopolitical context of the Cold War. After some previous proposals and in the face of these fragile economic, political and social circumstances and the communist threat, old “ideas of Europe” were revived, that is, the post-conflict situation induced the return of different perceptions about the need to seek peace through the union of European peoples. Its result was the formation of the first European Community in the early 1950s, and four decades later, the founding of the European Union (E.U.