FACT-CHECK: France rejected the European Defence Community in 1954, but not only because of the “right” vote

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, stated on 26 March that the European Defence Community (EDC) project “suffered an unexpected setback when, in 1954, the French right refused to sign its constitutive treaty” (minute 13:09). As we already counted in Newtral.es, the six founding countries of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) agreed in the 1950s to the creation of the European Defence Community (EDC), which sought to erect …