is essay will analyze several famous speeches pronounced throughout the European Project across thirty years, from e Hague Congress until the late seventies of the twentieth century. It aims to explore the rhetoric of fear in the European Construction, that is, recurring statements on the fear of losing Europe, going back to an era of division. It will aim at answering this question through the analysis of the speeches of protagonists of the European Project (mainly members of the European institutions). is essay will analyze how this fear is part of the constitutive matrix of the European idea as Dennis de Rougemont pointed out.Este ensaio analisa vários discursos famosos que foram pronunciados ao longo de trinta anos de projec...