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Formação Da Comunidade Européia: Cristianismo E Democracia Na Declaração De Robert Schuman, Daniela Menengoti Ribeiro

Daniela Menengoti Ribeiro

This paper is intended to demonstrate the existing convergence between Christian-democratic thinking and its influence on the process of unification of Europe by bringing close together the discourses held by the politicians who founded the European Community, with the catholic leaders and allies of the Christian Democratic Party as protagonists. To achieve this goal, the first step is to illustrate the values and ideas that gave rise to the development of the European leaders’ thinking as a means of guaranteeing permanent peace through political and economic union. A second step consists in analyzing the social-Christian doctrine thinking regarding the construction …