In a lecture he delivered at the Acad­emy of International Law at The Hague in 1955, Röpke emphasized the importance of the division while also pointing to its paradox. “To diminish national sovereignty is most emphatically one of the urgent needs of our time,” he argued, but “the excess of sovereignty should be abolished instead of being transferred to a higher po­liti­cal and geo­ graph­i­cal unit.”

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 52