On the day after the signing of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in Paris on 18 April 1951, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sends a letter to Robert Schuman in which he expresses his hope that the Schuman Plan might become the basis for Franco–German reconciliation.
‘The Schuman Plan is home and dry’. On 20 May 1952, in the Luxembourg Socialist daily newspaper Tageblatt, the cartoonist Simon welcomes the commitment of the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech, to ratify the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
Le dimanche 16 avril 1950, Jean Monnet retrouve Paul Reuter et Etienne Hirsch à Montfort-l'Amaury, près de Paris. Ensemble, ils précisent l'idée d'un pool charbon-acier européen et rédigent un premier texte. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, Jean Monnet se souvient avec précision de cette journée.
On 9 March 1953, during a formal sitting at the Maison de l’Europe in Strasbourg, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly, officially hands over the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community to the Foreign Ministers of the Six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
Group 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).
On the day after the signing of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community in Paris on 18 April 1951, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sends a letter to Robert Schuman in which he expresses his hope that the Schuman Plan might become the basis for Franco–German reconciliation.
