La Unión Europea

Francisco Aldecoa guides us through the history of the European Union, from the embryonic projects discussed in the great intellectual salons, to the response to the challenge posed by the war in Ukraine. Focusing on the main milestones of this journey, such as the constitution of the first "small Europe" after the Second World War, the fall of the Berlin Wall or the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, this book tells us how Europe has gone from being - in the words of Jacques Delors- a "passive subject" in international society to an increasingly decisive player in world politics. A unity project that has become, with all its limits, an essential global, normative and diplomatic actor for world peace and stability, prosperity and sustainable development, and that has shown remarkable resilience in the face of enormous challenges of the last decade (the pandemic, Brexit and the war in Ukraine). The book that the reader is holding in his hands deals with this fascinating story, with its foundations, its successes and its failures up to the present day. But it is also the vindication of a unique experience in history, in which, for the first time, a group of States, voluntarily, without using force, come together to create a political organization above them, sharing sovereignty.