ALL TOGETHER NOW:
European leaders sign the Treaty of Rome, the E.U.'s founding document
It may not be quite the creation story of the U.S. no Washington crossing the icy Delaware, no gathering of great minds to write a Constitution in Philadelphia but the founding of what is now the European Union had drama of its own. There was Winston Churchill's 1946 speech in Zurich calling for a United States of Europe; the plan in 1950 by Robert Schuman, France's Foreign Minister, to pool European coal and steel the muscle of war under a multinational authority; the emotion at the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic...
