In spring 1950, acknowledging the Cold War context, Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board, speculates on the objectives and nature of the cooperation to be established between Western Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In this note to Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, Jean Monnet sets out the terms for the participation of the Saar, which is economically attached to France, in the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
During the Second World War, Jean Monnet, a member of the French Committee for National Liberation in Algiers, reflects on how to restore lasting peace and ensure the economic reconstruction of Europe once the war is over.
On 6 January 1953, Jean Monnet sends Robert Schuman and Paul-Henri Spaak a letter in which he outlines his vision of the European Political Community (EPC).
On 14 March 1961, Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, meets Jean Monnet, President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE), during his visit to the United States of America.
Paul-Henri Spaak (on the left), President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and Jean Monnet, President of the ECSC High Authority, in Strasbourg in January 1953.
Discussion between François de Menthon, President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe (on the left), and Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), in Strasbourg on 10 January 1953.