Dear friends During the war, Jean Monnet often repeated that there could be no peace in Europe, if the nation states continued to be structured around the sort of sovereignty that leads to politics of national privilege and economic protectionism.
Coincidentally, J.K. Paasikivi, our post-war president also wrote during the war that the limitation of raison d’état is the question upon which hinges the future of not only small states, but also the large states, and humanity as a whole. Ultimately, Monnet and Paasikivi were talking about the same thing. What is most essential in the EU?