The most vocal Euroskeptic of the 1950s was the ubiquitous Wilhelm Röpke, who enjoyed both the ear of West German economics minister (and MPS member) Ludwig Erhard and ready access to the press as a public intellectual. Röpke feared that the EEC would be an extension of the "bloc solution" of the Eu­ro­pean Coal and Steel Community created in 1952, protecting the continent's products ­behind a shared tariff wall, sheltered from foreign competition and managed collectively by a supranational bureaucracy. He felt that the "bloc" version of Eu­rope had no claim to be labeled "integration." It reproduced the precise symptoms of protectionism and state control that had characterized the 1930s. What looked like integration for Eu­rope would perpetuate disintegration at the scale of the world. Such an arrangement would "turn national autarchy to a continental one and repeat the old prob­lems at a higher geo­graph­i­cal scale."

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 606