LAW 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Economic Reconstruction, Iron Curtain, Marshall Plan
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The end of the war, federalism and the hague congress: the end of the war left europe socially and economically dislocated and destitute. Politically there was a change of mood that there should be no return to pre-war elites and pre-war ways. They sought to take advantage of the disruption of the war to start new with a system vastly different to that of nation states, but rather a federal constitution of europe. European congress was eventually held in the hague in may 1948: churchill was the honorary president of the congress, and in zurich in. 1946 outlined that britain, the us and the ussr would not be a part of the new europe but rather, friends and sponsors of the new europe, which would have its basis in a partnership between france and. Germany: the attempts of federalists leading up to and as a result of the.
