Pat Cox, Fathers with foresight showed the way
Text Extract from a contribution by Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament, to a joint publication produced by the European Commission in 2002 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). In his text, Mr Cox looks back on the institutional development of the ECSC Common Assembly, as precursor of the European Parliament, from its inception to the signing of the Rome Treaties in 1957.
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Source: European Commission. CECA EKSF EGKS EKAX ECSC EHTY EKSG 1952-2002, Fifty years of the European Coal and Steel Community, 34 different perspectives. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2002. 287 p. ISBN 92-894-2072-3. "Fathers with foresight showed the way", auteur:Cox, Pat, p. 21-30.
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