Chapter 79 Coal and Steel Complex

However, Zhou Nan actually had some fire in his heart, although he had fully considered that the content of his speech would cause great repercussions, but he did not expect that his analysis had become a topic that both Eastern and Western governments paid close attention to.

Although this has improved his academic status, it has also led to the fact that he is no longer so free and subject to restrictions in all aspects.

Now he could no longer trust what he wanted to say, he had to find a balance between East and West.

Stolko and the Liberal Democrats helped him with this, but he had to dig out a little bit about the future of Europe.

He must not be involved in the political turmoil now. Then, if he wants to find a way out of Europe's future, he can only start from the economic side.

Zhou Nan suddenly had a feeling of being in the middle of nowhere, and he felt as if he was on the wrong path.

What he wants is a peaceful and peaceful life, but now, he is unconsciously pushed deeper and deeper by the current situation.

He did not seem to have taken the wrong path since he began to write a general history of the world, but in order to become famous, and after the Liberal Democrats, Jean Nord, and Stolco pushed him out in a hurry to throw out the topic of international relations and development of European countries, he became more and more anxious for quick success.

Thinking about it at this time, he doesn't want to live such a life at all!

But will he be able to quit? It seems that he can't, and now he already has a feeling that he can't help himself.

Facing everyone present, Zhou Nan didn't have the heart to entertain for a while, stood up and said: "Thank you very much, Mr. President Denickra, for your care for me, since I want to change the content of my speech, then I must come up with the exact content of the speech before tomorrow's speech." I need time to write, so I'm not going to attend today's welcome dinner. ”

Laichli was anxious and said: "Mr. Zhou, all walks of life in Italy are looking forward to giving Mr. Zhou the warmest welcome, and today's cocktail party ......"

An elderly professor sitting next to him said: "Your Excellency, I think that what everyone is looking forward to more than a welcome banquet is that Mr. Zhou will have a deafening speech and a more effective way to promote peace in Europe. ”

Kanalai also nodded and said, "Let's postpone the welcome banquet to tomorrow evening, let Mr. Zhou have a good rest today, and let us look forward to tomorrow afternoon's speech." ”

Except for Zhou Nan and his party, everyone else left the hotel, and the police were arranged in the lobby and corridor to guard Zhou Nan so that no one could disturb Zhou Nan.

Etinny prepared the paper and pen and placed them on the desk, and made Zhou Nan a pot of strong tea.

In his past and present lives, Zhou Nan did not have the habit of smoking, and he relied on strong tea and coffee to refresh himself for mental activities such as writing.

"Etinny, contact Rothenum at once, and ask her to arrange for Feward and Slooney to wait for us in Milan with typewriters. Writing by hand was so slow that I needed two people to print the manuscript for me. ”

"I'll arrange it immediately, is there anything else I need to prepare?"

"I need some detailed data to contact Jean Nord and Hlein to survey the industrial indicators of the Ruhr area in the last 30 years from France and Germany, respectively."

Stolko asked suspiciously, "What do you want to do, Jonas?" ”

Zhou Nan said with a smile: "Since they all want me to give them some useful ideas, but I can't get too involved in politics, then it is not our problem to give them a big goal in terms of economy, whether they can achieve it." ”

"And what kind of problem are you trying to give them?"

"EEC!"

Storko and Etinny both froze, while Galliani, who had been silent, exclaimed: "What! ”

Galliani is a bit similar to Entlebuch, they are both old, they have no pursuit in their career and life, and while enjoying life to the fullest, they are more pursuing the name behind them.

The Italian Quarter, south of the Alps, is a remote region that is not politically and economically comparable to the German-speaking and French-speaking regions of Switzerland.

Galliani admired Zhou Nan's talent and has been actively promoting Zhou Nan in the party. His purpose was even simpler than that of Entlebuch, because Entlebuch also wanted to rely on Zhounan to develop Weggis's economy, while Galliani was completely unrequited.

But no matter how much he admired Zhou Nan, he never thought that in such a short period of time, Zhou Nan would be able to think of throwing such a big topic.

This is not the first time that Zhou Nan has mentioned the European Economic Community, and in the hundreds of years before him, countless Europeans have put forward various proposals for the common development of the European economy.

As early as the 17th century, Henry IV of France proposed a plan to create a European federation. After him, both Rousseau and Saint-Simon put forward the idea of a union of European states and a federal government in Europe.

During the First World War, the Social Democrats in Europe also raised the slogan "Establishment of a Federation of European Republics" and made some attempts after the war. However, it was only after the Second World War, thanks to Monet's appeal and campaigning efforts, that some progress was made in the political integration of Europe.

Jean Monet had proposed that Britain and France form a coalition government to deal with Germany at the beginning of World War II. Unfortunately, France was defeated too quickly, and the plan died as soon as it was proposed.

However, after World War II, Jean Monet took into account the difficulties of European unity and redrew the road map.

This plan was soon revisited, and in 50 years he wrote the Paris Declaration, which for the first time proposed the creation of a coal-steel consortium in Europe, on which to slowly integrate the European economy.

As it turned out, his plan was successful, because the plan lost its previous false emptiness and became a reality.

From coal-steel union, to economic union, from customs union to political union, Monet's plan is close to reality and has become feasible.

The most important thing is that in the early post-World War II period, the countries of Western Europe faced a serious political and economic crisis. The government's control is far less than before, and for the sake of Europe's peace and development, Europe must take the road of unity and reunification.

At this time, the opposition was much smaller than it had been before the war.

Zhou Nan is now being supplied by various governments and has to change his development course. Then he came up with a plan that could not be realized in the short term, but was very feasible, and gave the heads of governments a headache.

Yes, this plan is very realistic, but it is still difficult to implement.

Among other things, the Dutch government has not yet resumed its functions, Italian politics is in chaos, the state of Luxembourg does not exist now, Germany is divided into four occupation zones, and Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union each occupy a large part of German territory.

At a time when the functions of various governments have not yet been straightened out, no matter how good the plan proposed by Zhou Nan is, it will not be possible to implement it until the countries have stabilized.

At the very least, it will be until Italy and Germany become sovereign again.

Italy's sovereignty was soon restored, but Germany, which was supposed to wait until three years later, was divided into two states.

If this plan can allow Germany to regain sovereignty sooner, this will also be the credit of Zhou Nan.

In the original world, the "European Coal and Steel Community" treaty was signed in Paris in 51 years, with the participation of France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

In '55, Monnet founded the United States of Europe Action Committee and served as its chairman for 20 years. The United States of Europe Action Committee is an international non-governmental organization whose purpose is to organize the forces of the countries of Western Europe in favor of European unity, to jointly explore the steps and methods of European unity, to further disseminate the idea of European unity in Western Europe, and to exert a certain influence on public opinion among the governments of various countries.

In 58, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg established the European Economic Community, which began the process of economic integration in Western Europe.

This United States of Europe Action Committee was also the predecessor of the European Union.

The 50s and 60s were a period of rapid economic development in Western Europe. In particular, the 60s were called the "golden age" of economic development in Europe. With the increase of economic strength, the countries of Western Europe have become politically independent and united in their own efforts.

Economic development gave the organization more recognition, and by the seventies and eighties, more and more European countries had joined the organization, and finally in the nineties, the European Union was officially established.

From 50 to 93 years, the EU was finally established after 43 years, and the difficulties and setbacks experienced in this period cannot be solved by one person.

Let Monet fight for European unity all his life, but he did not see the establishment of the European Union until his death.

Now that he has thought about the topic of his speech, the content of Zhou Nan's speech has quickly formed a main line of speech according to the development of the European Union.

He hesitated for a long time, and in order to completely shock everyone, he still wrote on the manuscript paper "Coal and Steel Complex", "Customs Union", "Industrial Complex", "Economic Complex", "European Union", five big headings.

He has five stops in Italy, the first stop in Turin, the second in Milan, the third in Padua, the fourth in Bologna and the fifth in Rome. He was ready to throw an article at every stop.

Of course, it is certainly too late for him to create, but he doesn't have to write the full content of the content, and each stop only needs to be able to meet the needs of two hours of speech.

Another advantage of speaking in Italy is that he doesn't know Italian, so he needs an interpreter. He didn't have to prepare more than 5,000 words for each speech, and then add spoken words and stories for two hours, as he did in France.

Now, he only needs to prepare an hour of dry goods first, and he can cope with this speech without being so tired.

After a moment of silence, Zhou Nan began to write under the first title: In 1646, after the fall of Constantinople, King George of Bohemia proposed that the Christian nations of Europe should form an alliance against the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. But today, exactly 300 years later, the European Union remains an unrealistic dream......