Success Quote by Bernie Ecclestone

Ecclestone’s line is a businessman’s sound bite dressed up as geopolitics: take a fussy, continent-bound idea of unity and swap it for something big enough to match the scale of the market. A “Treaty of Rome” evokes the EU’s founding myth - procedural, bureaucratic, proudly regional. A “Treaty of the World” is the fantasy version: frictionless borders, harmonized rules, one set of standards, one audience, one ledger.

The intent is less utopian than transactional. Ecclestone made his name selling a sport by turning national weekends into a single global product. He’s always preferred deal-making to deliberation, bilateral leverage to shared sovereignty. So when he rejects “Rome,” he’s rejecting the slow, compromise-heavy politics of institutions that can tell powerful operators “no.” “World” flatters the cosmopolitan, post-national vibe, but it also conveniently sidelines any local veto points - labor laws, tax regimes, antitrust scrutiny - that complicate big-money enterprises.

The subtext is a critique of Europe as parochial at the exact moment Europe fears being left behind. Read against the era’s background noise (globalization rhetoric, EU infighting, the rise of China and the Gulf as commercial power centers), it’s a pressure tactic: stop acting like a club and start acting like a platform. Coming from Ecclestone, it’s also self-portraiture. He’s not arguing for global citizenship; he’s arguing for a world where the fastest negotiator wins and the rulebook is written in sponsorship ink.