‘Past the memorial (ECSC — POOLING OF COAL AND STEEL — PROSPERITY AND A LOWER COST OF LIVING FOR ALL! MCMLIII): “With the European Common Market will everything get cheaper, just as coal has since I’ve been in the ECSC?”’ On 19 October 1957, in the daily newspaper Deutsche Zeitung, the German cartoonist Köhler portrays the hopes aroused in Germany by the creation of the European Common Market.