Jean Monnet and his close colleagues who were involved in the drafting of the Schuman Plan. In the background from left to right: Étienne Hirsch (standing), Pierre Uri, Jean Monnet and Jean Ripert.
Le charbon et l'acier se devaient d'être pour Jean Monnet, commissaire général au Plan de modernisation et d'équipement, les premiers supports susceptibles d'établir une communauté concrète d'intérêts, ouvrant la voie à la mise en place d'une autorité supranationale dotée de véritables pouvoirs.
Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) (right), and Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the ECSC (left), in Strasbourg in January 1953.
In extracts from Jacques Delors’ foreword to the book by Pascal Fontaine, Jean Monnet, l’Inspirateur, published in 1988, the former President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995 pays tribute to Jean Monnet, considered as the founding father of a united Europe.
On 22 September 1950, Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board, speculates on the methods for organising the European continent whilst providing a suitable response to the question of the economic, political and military reconstruction of West Germany.
On 17 November 1950, Jean Monnet sends a letter to Jules Aubrun, head of the French Steel Industry Employers’ Association, in which he refutes the allegations made by Aubrun on the distance between the French steel industry and the current negotiations on the Schuman Plan.