By: Gupreet Brar, managing director, Edelman Public Affairs
The journey from that idea in the 1940s and early 50s, to the organisation we all see before us today is a remarkable one. One that has grown from six member states, to a massive twenty-eight today. A community defined by the simple text of the 1951 Treaty of Paris, and after eight iterations the mammoth document underpinning the Treaty of Lisbon of today. The vision of simply combining coal and steel production, to now being a community celebrating “peace, freedom and security in and around Europe.”
