外交的欧洲由欧盟之父让·莫内提出，它将敏感的大问题拿到群众政治范围之外，将它们缩小为可管理的技术性问题，外交官能够通过闭门商谈的官僚妥协解决。
The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the sphere of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.