75 years of Montanunion: How Robert Schuman created the nucleus of the EU

In May 1950, France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman announced a plan to bring together the French and German Montan industries, opening up prospects for peace and prosperity.

European Union Day was yesterday, May 9, and on that day in 1950, Robert Schuman, then French Foreign Minister, delivered a speech that marked the beginning of the Union as we know it today. In it, Schuman called for the coal and steel production of European countries to be placed under a single supranational government, as the first step on the path to the eventual creation of a European union. Since then, more and more steps have been taken in…

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The European Parliament describes the Schuman Declaration, signed today, May 9, 1950, as the moment “that shaped today’s Europe.” “75 years ago, on May 9, 1950,… European Parliament on Europe Day: The Schuman Declaration shaped today’s Europe - ΙΝΑΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ

MAINZ. Prime Minister Alexander Schweitzer visited the Robert Schuman House in Scy-Chazelles near Metz on Europe Day together with representatives of the Greater Region and unveiled a memorial plaque. Exactly 75 years ago, the then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented his historical declaration for the cooperation of the nations and thus the foundation stone for today's European Union [...]

On 9 May 1950 the historic declaration was issued that the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed the creation of a community of States for the common production of coal and steel, an instrument to imagine a Europe united first from an economic and political point of view, in order to overcome the tragic experience of the war. At that time an ambitious process of integration was undertaken that experienced moments of difficulty but neve…