On 11 August 1952, the day after the inaugural session of the High Authority in Luxembourg, the German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung paints a sober picture of Luxembourg and describes the lack of enthusiasm for this inaugural session.

On 10 August 1952, at the inaugural session of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg, Émile Hamilius, Mayor of the City of Luxembourg, gives an address in which he emphasises the significance of the event.

On 10 August 1952, Jean Monnet, first President of the new institution, gives an address at the inaugural session of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg.

On 10 August 1952, the inaugural session of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) is held in Luxembourg City Hall.

Jean Monnet (on the left), first President of the ECSC High Authority, and Joseph Bech (on the right), Luxembourg Foreign Minister, on the steps leading to Luxembourg City Hall, where the inaugural meeting of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) is held on 10 August 1952.

In 1952, writing in the French magazine Notre Europe, Henry Teitgen, President of the Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP) (People’s Republican Movement) and Vice-President of the French Council for a United Europe, outlines the role of the future institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

Diagram showing the operation and organisation of the institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), as established by the Treaty signed in Paris on 18 April 1951.

On 3 July 1952, the French Government draws up a list of the institutional measures required for the application of the Paris Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

In his memoirs, Robert Schuman, the former French Foreign Minister whose name remains associated with the European coal and steel pool, expresses his satisfaction with the results achieved by the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) since its establishment.

On 13 September 1952, at an international conference organised by the Genoa Chamber of Commerce on the economic problems of European federation, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Italian Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sets out the position of the Italian Government towards European integration.