Download or read book United Europe. The Initiators of Integration after the Second World War written by Ilona Baldacchino and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2014 in the subject History of Europe - European Postwar Period, grade: A, European Online Academy, language: English, abstract: The speech of Robert Schuman shows the gradual aspect of building a new continent that was disrupted after a harsh war like World War II. As it states, there was no intention to build the continent all at once. This speech shows that after a war like WWII, the European countries needed to find a way to secure peace for the entire continent after a lot of devastation that had occurred. The idea was to promote trade and establish peace by bringing together European nation states, to create one goal...Unity.