As soon as World War TwoII came to an end, it immediately appeared clear for North American and Western European political Eliteselites that a new era for security policies was about to commence, and this required a new course in the relation ofrelations between European States. The first initiatives in the direction of European integration were framed and shaped by the chaotic context of the first years of the Cold War, inwith the alarming perspectiveprospect of a Communist domination of Europe; since. Since the Schuman Declaration, in May 1950, we can notice the clear security implications that the European construction would have had: “The pooling of coal and steel production […] will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war, of which they have been the most constant victims”victims.”
InFrom this perspective, in October 1950, under the proposal of the French Prime Minister René Pleven, the troubled path of the European Defence Community began, with two high goals ahead: 1) to impede the integration of German divisions into the Western Defence system, which had been proposed at the New York meeting of the North Atlantic Council in September 1950 by the United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson, envisaging the possibility of rearming West Germany; and 2) to realize an unprecedented transfer of sovereignty from the Member States to an independent authority and merge their armed forces into a European Defence Force (EDF).