Barroso siger i en tale i forbindelsen med Nobels fredspris:
“The genius of the founding fathers was precisely in understanding that to guarantee peace in the 20th century nations needed to think beyond the nation-state. As Walter Hallstein, the first President of the European Commission said: ‘The system of sovereign nation-states has failed the most important test of the 20th century’. And he added ‘through two world wars it has proved itself unable to preserve peace’.”
EU var altså skabt baseret på en fejlagtig fortolkning af årsagerne til første og anden verdenskrig.
Læs Kasper Støvrings fremragende analyse af EU som et "fredens projekt"
