EUROPA´S KIDNAPPING

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, Europe was marked by unprecedented devastation and human sufferring while it had to face new political challenges, in particular reconciliation among the peoples of Europe and the growing political division between two ideologically opposed superpowers. This situation favoured a long held idea of European unification through the creation of European institutions. In his famous speech at the University of Zurich in 1946, Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe and the creation of a Council of Europe, which was established in Strasbourg on 5 May 1949 as the first European institution...

This documentary wants to ilustred us on the grounds upon we have constructed our current European Union and the kidnapping of a social idea of Europe in order to protect only an economic union of countries.