CNDP:1950-1957
Conseil de l'Europe
9 mai 1950: Déclaration Schuman
18 avril 1951: Signature du traité CECA
Signing of the ECSC Treaty (Paris, 18 April 1951)
BildGroup photograph taken at the signing of the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. From left to right: Paul van Zeeland (B), Joseph Bech (L), Joseph Meurice (B), Carlo Sforza (I), Robert Schuman (F), Konrad Adenauer (BRD), Dirk Stikker (NL) and Johannes van den Brink (NL).
27 mai 1952: Signature du traité CED
23 juillet 1952: Entrée en vigueur du traité CECA
‘The EDC is dead’ — headline in the Italian Communist daily newspaper L’Unità (31 August 1954)
BildOn 31 August 1954, the day after the refusal by the French National Assembly to ratify the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC), the Italian Communist daily newspaper L’Unità gleefully heads its front page with: ‘The EDC is dead’.