The audience became even more noisy. Many people couldn't help but stand up, and more people applauded, and the shouts of students.

Zhou Nan pressed down with both hands, and it took two or three minutes before the audience calmed down again. He was about to speak, but this time the audience heard warm applause neatly.

Everyone was shocked by Zhou Nan's words, and no one expected that Zhou Nan would raise such a big topic this time.

During his time in France, he had fully told the history and present of Europe, including some predictions and proposals for the future, but they were all on the matter.

However, the European Union's thesis has completely exceeded everyone's expectations.

The speech continues.

"At this stage, the European Union is just the ultimate goal of our development. To achieve this goal, we need to solve countless practical difficulties we face. However, no matter how bumpy the road is, we must move forward step by step. Only in this way can we get closer and closer to the goal. So, what should our first step be?"

Zhou Nan turned around and wrote two titles on the blackboard, "European Revival Plan" and "Coal and Steel Consortium". "I think the first difficulty we are facing at present is how to revive and how to unite..."

The applause from the audience rang out again warmly, and many people lowered their heads and wrote down the topics written by Zhou Nan on their notebooks.

The speech was only at this time. Zhou Nan continued his speech according to the main line of his manuscript. "In 1646, after the Bohemia King George was captured in Constantinople, he proposed that European Christian countries should form an alliance to fight the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. But today, three hundred years have passed, the European Union is still an unrealistic dream..."

From the proposals of celebrities in history, Zhou Nan has been talking about the difficulties of forming the European Union now. Then he removed the concept of the EU and started with the business case of forming the European Coal and Steel Consortium.

The establishment of the EU is a dream at the current stage, but there will be no difficulties in forming a coal-steel consortium. The data obtained by Zhou Nan also fully illustrates the impact of war on industry.

Establish an international coal-steel consortium to effectively integrate European resources and sales. Although various countries have suffered some losses in terms of taxation, this can drive the stable development of the entire industry.

The reduction of prices and increased jobs are definitely good news for Europeans who are currently short of food and clothing.

Of course, Zhou Nan is not a businessman, he does not understand those business operations. He can only put forward one concept and effective suggestions, and there will naturally be countless outstanding talents to verify whether it is feasible.

Subsequently, today when the European economy has collapsed, it is difficult to get out of the economic quagmire without external support and relying solely on Europe's own strength.

Zhou Nan advocated that European countries negotiate with the United States, seek loans, seek assistance, cooperation, and even seek economic help from the United States through market exchange.

There is no doubt that a stable, wealthy Europe is in the fundamental interests of the United States.

Although the United States is unwilling to use real money to help Europe, before Marshall, it also believed that Europe could get out of its own difficulties, but this is absolutely impossible.

Zhou Nan now wants to remind them not to wait until Germany starves to death, and Britain and France have been in trouble, and then they know how to rescue them.

Although Zhou Nan only proposed these plans and did not involve anything substantial, the title of the European Union alone was enough to attract everyone.

People don’t care how much advice Zhou Nan has on the coal-steel consortium, and almost everyone has focused on the concept of the European Union.

Most of the questions asked at the reporter's Q&A meeting after the speech were related to the EU.

Le Figaro has now almost become Zhou Nan's royal newspaper. Although several Swiss newspapers are better for Zhou Nan in terms of attitude, their influence is far inferior to Le Figaro's international influence.

Their appointed follower Lu Miye got the first opportunity to ask a question. "Mr. Zhou, in your expectation, what kind of organization should the European Union be? What kind of relationship should they have with the governments of European countries today? How to solve the coexisting problems?"

"The European Union must not be regarded as a loose organization, and of course it cannot endanger the existing regimes of various countries. In my personal opinion, the European Union should tend to be a confederate alliance in politics, and each country still has its own rights. However, economically, it should tend to unify tariffs, member states cancel tariffs, and mutual exchanges between business, opening up free trade of raw materials, and forming an economic alliance."

“That is, the main function of establishing the European Union is at the economic level rather than the political level, right?”

"Yes. Next, I'll ask a reporter from Zurich Daily."

Of course, we need to downplay the political role. Although the United States wants to restore the European economy, it wants to control the entire Europe even more. If Europe unites, they will certainly not allow it.

If it were just purely economic cooperation, the United States' opposition would not be so strong.

As for how far it can develop in the future, it doesn’t matter to Zhou Nan.

Anyway, his role is to just dig holes and not bury them.

The reporter from Zurich walked to the front stage and took the microphone handed over by Etini and asked: "Mr. Zhou, as a non-aligned neutral country, what role do you think Switzerland should play in the process of post-disaster reconstruction in Europe?"

Zhou Nan thought for a while and replied: "I always agree with the always neutral and non-aligned policy implemented by Switzerland, but this is only at the political level. At the economic level, I agree with Swiss entrepreneurs going abroad and looking for more investment opportunities. Switzerland is a country with scarce resources. We can only get more resources and development opportunities abroad. Switzerland not only needs to become a window between the East and the West in finance, but I personally believe that whether it is in the industrial field, the energy field, or the agricultural trade field, it can become a window between the East and the West. Although the contradiction between the East and the West is serious now, I have always believed that ideological differences cannot prevent people as individuals from pursuing a better life. Governments should pay more attention to the development of people's livelihood. Has the lessons of World War II left us deep pain?"

Etini deliberately ordered a reporter from the Soviet Union. He came to the stage, but asked in skillful German: "Mr. Zhou, you have achieved considerable achievements in Europe. Do you have any intention to go to the Soviet Union to give a speech?"
Chapter completed!