Editing European Federalism (section)

====[[File:Cball-ECSC.png]] European Economic Community and [[File:RobertSchuman.png]] Schuman Plan [[File:Cdem.png]]====
Created as the continuation of [[File:Cball-ECSC.png]] '''European Coal and Steel Community''', spearheaded by French and German [[File:Cdem.png]] [[Christian Democracy|Christian Democrats]], The [[File:Cball-EU.png]] '''European Economic Community''' was meant to bind European nations together economically, and bring their political and economic interests closer to prevent the possibility of another war between Europeans. While the EEC was far from anything resembling a federal state, it was something that Euro-federalists believed could in time evolve in a more integrated construct and someday a European Federation. One of EEC architects Jean Monnet believed that the EEC can be used as a tool for gradual centralization of political authority in Europe, justifying it with common economic interest it would gradually turn into a Federal European Republic.