But economic integration was underpinned by a vision of peace and prosperity for Europe’s peoples, after centuries of unprecedented violence had culminated in two world wars that reinforced the seemingly eternal enmity between France and Germany. And, indeed, the language of a larger political union was embedded in Europe’s treaties, to be interpreted by the European Court of Justice and subsequent generations of European decision-makers in ways that supported the construction of a common European polity and identity, as well as a unified economy.
但在数百年前所未有的暴力最终导致两次世界大战并进一步强化法德两国看似无解的敌意后，经济一体化必须得到欧洲民众和平繁荣愿景的支持。事实上，欧洲条约包含着扩大政治联盟的涵义，由欧洲法院和之后几代欧洲决策者以支持欧洲共同政体、身份及统一经济建设的方式来加以解释。