On the one hand, the European unification process has had Germany’s broad political support since the end of World War II. The integration successes achieved in Europe since the 1950s were mainly in the economic sector.
From the development of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 to the founding of the European Economic Community and the creation of the single market to the establishment of the European Monetary System and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, Germany has always been a motor of European union.