Back in the 1950’s, the founding nations’ foreign ministers promptly turned to their Belgian colleague, Paul-Henri Spaak, for fresh proposals. After intensive discussion among the six, and especially between France and Germany, the Treaty of Rome was drawn up and signed within two years of the EDC debacle.
但法国全民公决的失败比否决EDC的后果更为严重。回到1950年代，六个发起国的外交部长很快便转向他们的比利时同僚Paul-Henri Spaak寻求新的提案。在六国之间，特别是法德之间的激烈讨论之后，起草了《罗马公约》，并在EDC彻底失败的两年之内签署了该公约。