True federalists actually saw the Treaty of Rome as a move away from the building of a European superstate that they had hoped would develop from the European Coal and Steel Community, set up in 1951.

忠实的联邦主义者亲眼见证了，1951年成立的欧洲煤钢共同体演变成了《罗马条约》，条约的订立朝建立他们所期望的超国家的欧洲政府迈出了一步。