The European Union in the light of History: A stocktaking seventy years later (1950-2020)

  • Guillermo Á. Pérez Sánchez Universidad de Valladolid
Keywords: European Union, Robert Schuman Declaration, European integration, peace, prosperity, democracy, Brexit, irreversible, Eurosceptic, anti-European, positive assessment

Abstract

Seventy years after Robert Schuman’s «Declaration» of 9 May 1950, which set the process of European integration in motion in a reliable way, it seems a very appropriate moment to present an assessment of the process in the light of history. At the same time, from certain sectors of academia, politics and the media, the Eurosceptics, not to mention the most clearly anti-European, and in relation to the uncertainty in which the European Union seems to be, have begun to raise doubts about the validity of the integration project itself. Faced with these questions, and depending on the positive balance that, according to the still majority feeling, can be presented seventy years later, it is argued, paraphrasing the enlightened, that if the European Union did not exist, it would have to be invented.

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Published
2020-12-31
How to Cite
Pérez Sánchez G. Á. (2020). The European Union in the light of History: A stocktaking seventy years later (1950-2020). Historia y Política, 44, 145-170. https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.44.06