Trans-European functional projects implemented in Europe: Public Works in Europe and Romania. Recovery after the World Economic Crisis of 1929 During the Thirties

Functionalism as a theory of international relations was developed by David Mitrany and Jean Monnet. Their contemporaries were Albert Thomas and Francis Delaisi, whose names are rarely mentioned in the history of European integration, yet they contributed effectively to the implementation of the first trans-European public work conceived as a remedy after the Economic Crisis. Albert Thomas as the first Director General of the International Labour Office integrated Delaisi’s plans into the program of the ILO. This paper presents those projects that were implemented during the thirties and were the first trans-European infrastructural development programs.

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