Sean McGlynn is a university lecturer in history and a prolific writer on culture. He received an M.A. from King’s College London and was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter. He contributes regularly to The Spectator, The Critic, The New Criterion, and History Today, among others.
The Schuman Plan: Toward a European Federation

The Schuman Plan: Toward a European Federation

2025 marks the 75th year since the inception of the Schuman Plan. It was said that Schuman “didn’t really understand the treaty which bore his name.” Indeed, this is the intended strategy of architects of Euro-federalism: make the structural process so byzantine that few, especially the population at large, can understand what is happening. Technocracy, rather than democracy, is the project’s driving force.

April 3, 2025