Yet July will bring the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, which established the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) among France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg only six years after the end of World War II. During the previous 70 years, Germany and France had fought each other in three devastating wars, the last two of which ruined Europe’s economies and decimated its population.
地中海能源共同体因此作出似乎仍然注定是白日梦的构想。然而六月份迎来了巴黎公约的六十周年纪念日，当时在法国，德国，意大利，比利时和荷兰之间建立了欧洲煤矿和钢铁共同体（ECSC），卢森堡在二战结束仅仅六个月之后也加入了该组织。在之前的70年间，德国和法国在三个毁灭性战争中共同作战，其中后两场站在摧毁了欧洲的经济，大幅减少了其人口。