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.
From 1950 onwards, Robert Schuman encourages the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). From amongst his reasons for doing so, he singles out the weakness of intergovernmental European organisations such as the Council of Europe.
In his memoirs, Robert Schuman, former French Foreign Minister, recalls the reasons behind his commitment to a European coal and steel pool and his decision to take on the political responsibility for such a project.
On 9 May 1953, following a ceremony commemorating the ‘Schuman Declaration’ Jean Monnet (left), President of the High Authority, and Robert Schuman (right), MP for the département of the Moselle, leave the seat of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg.
In his memoirs, Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, discusses the reasons for the United Kingdom’s negative position with respect to the French plan to establish a coal and steel pool in Western Europe.
On 1 May 1950, Jean Monnet sends a lengthy memorandum to Robert Schuman in which he draws the French Foreign Minister’s attention to France’s role in finding a European solution to the German problem.
