I believe that Tommaso’s ambition, and the founding role that he played in this process, from the initial ideas to the (indirect) negotiation of the details of the Treaty articles and the actual establishment of the Union, was exactly to create a proper institutional set-up for an idea of Europe designed to improve the well-being of its citizens and ensure fruitful interaction with the rest of the world.
At times, there is criticism of what can be seen as a “technocratic” approach to political union.