About the Statement
The most important and coherent experience in regionalism, the creation and development of the European Union are an illustration of the common project approach. In the writings of Robert Schuman, one of its founding fathers, one discovers the express intention to consolidate peace on the continent. The proposed solution consisted in creating an item of cooperation freed from any value influence and cultural tension, an item from the neutral, undisputable domain of economy and industry. This was the domain of coal and steel.
The necessity of the moment to create a framework of peaceful collaboration led to the identification of a common interest in the field of civilization, attractive enough to absorb disposable energies and important enough to render irrelevant the unsolved disputes. The keyword was interaction among the component societies of the European region, later seen or exemplified by the implementation of the principle of free movement of persons, goods, capital and services. The subjects of civilization had priority not only initially, but all throughout the development of European activities, they stood in the front-rank of attention.
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