On 13 November 1950, Jules Aubrun, President of the French Iron and Steel Employers’ Federation, sends to René Pleven, French Prime Minister, a letter in which he complains of being sidelined from the negotiations on the Schuman Plan.

On 29 August 1951, Jean Monnet’s staff at the French National Planning Board identify the economic and political objectives of the Schuman Plan and outline the favourable effects in France of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) on the steel and coal sectors, on the living and working conditions of workers and on the development of relations between the Six and industrialists in the Ruhr, the United Kingdom and the United States.

During the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and on Euratom, the French Delegation reviews the issue of the economic association of the overseas countries and territories with the future European Economic Community (EEC).

On 23 January 1956, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs drafts a memorandum in which it sets out the interest that France would have, along with its European partners, in concentrating on the use of nuclear energy for peaceful and civilian purposes.

Sent to Jean Monnet, President of the ECSC High Authority, this memorandum from the three working parties on housing shortages summarises the situation and the means to counter the housing shortage for manual workers in the six Member States.

Im Februar 2004 verleiht der Präsident der internationalen Paneuropa-Union und ehemalige Europa-Abgeordnete Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen seiner Begeisterung über die Erweiterung der Europäischen Union um zehn mittel- und osteuropäische Länder (MOEL) und um Malta und Zypern Ausdruck.

Cristina Blanco Sío-Lopez (Researcher in European Integration Studies, CVCE) with René Leboutte (Jean Monnet Chair, U. Luxembourg), Director of the Master in European Contemporary History at the University of Luxembourg, Josefina Cuesta (Chair in Contemporary History, U. Salamanca / Visiting Researcher, CVCE), Giuliana Laschi (Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, U. Bolonia, / Visiting Researcher, CVCE), Thierry Grosbois (U. Luxembourg), Rubén Ruiz (CVCE).

In this message to his French counterpart, Robert Schuman, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ernest Bevin, proposes reconsidering the Allies' dismantling policy in the occupied zones.

Am 10. August 1952 findet in Luxemburg die erste Sitzung der Hohen Behörde der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) unter dem Vorsitz von Jean Monnet statt.