the States to abandon the prerogatives of their statehood. The Functionalist approach was well represented by J. Monnet‘s program, whose idea was to implement a gradual transfer of sovereignty from the units to the European level. The last approach was the Confederalist one, based on the cooperation between national sovereign States. It can be said that the failure of the EDC and the EPC could be considered in the context of the inadequacy of the federalist approach in the early steps of the integration process. On the contrary the success of the ECSC and the EEC in the ‘50s, can be interpreted in the light of the fun
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