Europe and its armies, a historical perspective

From the failed attempt to implement a European Defense Community in the early 1950s to the initiatives taken to support Ukraine at war in 2022 and 2023, the relationship between the European Institutions and the military has changed enormously and gave rise to much debate.

In this presentation for non-specialists, we will return to the main moments of this eventful history.

Online conference : https://u4unity.webex.com/meet/jps

Cycle of conferences on europe

U4U is a European and citizens’ union which affirms its support for the European project and defends the
public service. The staff are concerned about the construction of Europe and the quality of a public service at the service of society.
at the service of society. Our raison d’être is European integration. It is in the name of
that we are organising a series of conferences on the history of European integration.

There are many ways of presenting the history of what was to become the European Union as we know it today.
as we know it today. One of the most enlightening is undoubtedly to retrace the history
of the many tensions, contradictions, confrontations and hesitations that have marked this path.