Neofunctionalism and material logic in the theory of European integration Walter Hallstein's

Many scholars and the whole scientificschools, appeared after the Second World War, made the efforts to encapsulate the process of Europeanintegration and construct scenarios of it's developing. The theory of neofunctionalism was thedominant in the end of 1950's. It focused on supranational traits of institutional structure, where political elites and organized groups of interests participated in designing of significant political decisionshad the most important role. One can find the link between the representatives of the early neofunctionalism,such as Ernst Haas, Leon Lindberg, Stuart Scheingold and Walter Hallstein, the first Presidentof the Commission of the European Economic Community, named the "Architect" and "FoundingFather" of modern European Community. This link can be traced with purely textual analysis of EuropeanCommission documents, the hand-written version of Hallstein's lectures, his published works,especially a work under the title "Der unvollendete Bundesstaat, translated into English as "Europe inthe making" (it was followed by translations into Spanish, Swedish and Italian) as well as early neofunctionalists'works. As a rule, political scientists and academics simply ignore Hallstein's contributionto the debate on integration theory. It is unjust on the author's point of view. In this connectionauthor raises the question about the interdependence of neofunctionalists' and W. Hallstein's ideas inthe developing of European integration theory.This article focuses on sources' analyzing and revealing areas of overlapping ideas of the neofunctionalistsand the President of the Commission in the understanding of the logic of European integration.For example, the idea that integration could be explained almost entirely with reference to thematerial interests of the parties involved. Moreover, this article deals with cases of similar contextualusing the key phrases of neofunctionalists and Hallstein, such as "spill-over" and "expansive logic ofsector integration". The author comes to the conclusion that the significance of the theory of Sachlogik(approx. trans. "material logic") to political science was substantiated less by Hallstein's works than bysimilar statements of neofunctionalists.Neofunctionalists and Walter Hallstein's principles and thinking are therefore part of a developmentwhich led us from an economically integrated Europe to the political and democratic concept of aEuropean Union.

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