In this letter to Jean Monnet, Pierre Mendès France, President of the Council and French Foreign Minister, describes the internal policy problems which he is encountering a few days before the vote in the French National Assembly on the ratification of the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC).
In this Note sent to Pierre Pflimlin, French Agriculture Minister, on 12 February 1951, Jean Monnet describes the supranational character that he would like to see applied to the plan for a ‘green pool’.
On 30 April 1953, on the eve of the opening of the common market for steel, Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the ECSC, expresses his satisfaction with the existence of a large European market of 150 million consumers.
On 19 March 1951, Jean Monnet, Chairman of the Schuman Plan conference, welcomes the decision taken by the representatives of the six governments that participated in the negotiations on the Schuman Plan in Paris to initial the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) at the Quai d’Orsay.
In his memoirs, Jean Monnet describes the Cold War climate that prevailed between East and West in the late 1940s and emphasises the importance of finding answers to the question of Germany’s future.
On 11 June 1955, in Luxembourg, René Mayer (left) officially succeeds Jean Monnet (right) as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).