European construction between the idea of a United Europe and the idea of a unitary Europe
European construction between the idea of a United Europe and the idea of a unitary Europe

Summary/Abstract: Even if the history of the European construction has its origins in the Schuman Declaration which was uttered for the first time on May 9, 1950, more than 75 years ago, for us Romanians, the history of European construction is an intrinsic part of our recent history, Romania being a member of this unique project since January 1, 2007. Thus Romania has been part of this great pro-European family for 18 years. In this context of the year 2025 in which we celebrate 75 years since the first initiative to create a “United and Unitary Europe” and 18 years since Romania has been part of the European Union, it is appropriate to celebrate also this unique historical moment and to look back in history to highlight the most important moments of the process of European construction and to pay a tribute to its founders, those enlightened intellectuals with a brilliant thinking and vision without whom the realization of the European project would not have been possible and would not have been successful. Regardless of the field of activity, ideological and political preferences or the degree of intellectual training, the realities of the European Union are omnipresent in our daily lives and have a major importance in our destiny both at European, national and individual level, through the status of full citizens with full rights but also with obligations arising from the European treaties. In the recent past, the historiography production dedicated to the European construction has become a respectable one both in terms of quantity and quality, especially after the introduction of the history of the European construction in the field of academic disciplines in Romania. The present work aims to align itself with this trend and is addressed to students regardless of specialization, future European specialists as well as to all those who wish to know more deeply the process of European construction and the ideas that have been at the basis of it and to better understand the European Union today, this perpetuum mobile in constant change. Robert Schuman, for example, associated European construction with “a leap into the unknown” because there had been no such phenomenon in the history of Europe, the project of European construction being the first of its kind.

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