Could the EU have been created during the Cold War, say during de Gaulle's time? That guy was always musing about uniting Europe. What kind of impact would it have on the Cold War?
I will eat your soul and rape your descendants.
If France doesn't oppose the creation of the CED ( mostly for internal french politics reasons ), you're likely to have a much earlier EU
I think that if your aim is to have the EU come up earlier, then your best bet is to get rid of de Gaulle--and the most convenient way to do that is what I once called the "Fifty Magic Bullets" scenario: the assassination attempt against him on August 22, 1962 is successful. (In OTL, even though his car was sprayed with automatic fire, none of the bullets hit him). That would be late enough for him to die that the Algerian crisis has been solved, if at great human cost, and France can go back to business as usual; and it would be early enough that he wouldn't have time to start paralyzing EEC institutions with the "empty chair" policy. Assume, for the sake of the hypothesis, that Michel Debré succeeds him as president of the French Republic (after a stint by Gaston Monnerville, incidentally a colored man, as interim president).Could the EU have been created during the Cold War, say during de Gaulle's time? That guy was always musing about uniting Europe. What kind of impact would it have on the Cold War?
Could the EU have been created during the Cold War, say during de Gaulle's time? That guy was always musing about uniting Europe. What kind of impact would it have on the Cold War?
Could the EU have been created during the Cold War, say during de Gaulle's time? That guy was always musing about uniting Europe. What kind of impact would it have on the Cold War?
Get the fuck out