La Comunidad Europea del Carbón y del Acero. Un exitoso y aún inacabado experimento institucional

the european community of coal and steel is the programmatic and institutional origin of the present european union. this fact, nevertheless, has lost gradually force as a result of the dynamism of the integration process. this article looks to draw attention on the unusual persistence in time of the objectives and strategies established by the schuman plan. its central argument is that the novel supranational institutional-design adopted by the treaty of paris in 1952 turned out to be the best solution to solve an aged problem of political instability by the route of gradual economic integration. the main conclusion is that, although many events have occurred in europe, the european union's current institutional architecture is essentially the same as that conceived more than halfa century ago.