欧盟希望将欧洲的生产方式联系在一起 — — 首先是通过欧洲煤钢共同体，后来是通过共同市场和欧元 — — 以此让欧洲国家实现紧密团结，彼此之间的战争永远消弭。
By linking European means of production together – first through the European coal and steel community, and later through the common market and the euro – the EU hoped to bind Europe’s states together so closely that war between them would no longer be an option.