Schumann Declaration: promising land of a European State

On 9th May 1950 Robert Schumann changed dramatically
european history by promoting a European state 

On 9th May 1950 french Foreign Affairs minister Robert Schumann proposed the creation of a new european organisation to control and manage french and german coal and steel production opening

this new organisation to every euorpean country wanting to be part of it. Coal and steel were raw materials for war and so this idea represented material impossibility of war between France and Germany by giving the control of this materials to a new supranational body. By making war absolutely impossible between France and Germany Schumann's purpose paved the way towards reconciliation, peace and stability not only between France and Germany but between all european countries, building material conditions for development and prosperity through a common market for coal and steel. Schumann Plan was absolutely revolutionary making a dramatic positive change to the history of a continent defined by isolation, powerty, bitterness and war overcoming nation-state in order to build a new, open, pacific and prosperous european state. Nation-state legitimity was based on territory and so a mandatory neeed for expansion through war, but this new european state legitimity would be based on market and so in trade as a mean for pacific expansion. Moreover european common market on coal and steel would not be only positive for Europe but for the entire world globalizing economic prosperity, stability and peace by unifing all national trade barriers in a only european tariff trade barrier lower than the previous nation-state barriers.

Europe year 0: building european system, taking off Europe from hobbesianism

In 1949 Council of Europe represented a great
step towards european unity 

In 1947 United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg signed the Treaty of London creating Western European Union (WEU). WEU was the first european organisation in history being a defensive agreement and a promise for colaboration in economic, social and cultural aspects. 

One year later in 1948 United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland,, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Turkey builded European Organization for Economic Cooperation in order to achieve economic recovery overcoming World War II tragic effects. It served to draw Europe's postwar map formed by Western Europe, Greece (the only country of Eastern Europe able to defeat communism winning the right to be part of european system) and Turkey (eastern pivot destined to cover, counterbalance and protect Europe against USSR). Eastern Europe countries dominated by totalitarian communist regimes satellized by USSR, fascist Spain and neutral Finland were keep out from this new map of Europe draw by the United States. 

In 1949 United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Portugal builded North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) creating another military alliance aimed to guarantee US european defence against any threat against the continent. Also in this year United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Denmark, Norway and Sweden builded Council of Europe aimed to promote all ideas linked with a greater sense of european unity and harmony. COE represented a very important step towards European building process because it was the very first european organisation vested with a certain loose sense of supranationality. For the very first time in history there was a somewhat permanent european structure with regular meetings formed by a government and a parliamentary body.