Dr Susana Muñoz, Head of the European Integration Department, and Dr Cristina Blanco Sío-López, Researcher in European Studies at the CVCE, were invited to take part in the 2013 Jean Monnet Conference ‘The political implications of European economic integration. Towards a political Union’, organised by the European Commission.

In April 1948, Jean Monnet is involved in negotiations in Washington concerning the distribution of material and financial aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan. In this letter written on 18 April 1948 and addressed to Robert Schuman, President of the French Council, he describes the mood of his US colleagues and ends by emphasising the need for a European federation.

During an official visit to Paris on 15 and 16 May 1970, Pierre Werner speaks to Jean Monnet. In the background, Alain Poher, President of the French Senate, and Luxembourg Minister Gaston Thorn.

On 10 and 11 May 1970, in an interview given to journalist Georges Suffert, Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board in 1950, describes how the French plan for a coal and steel pool was developed and outlines his working method.

Jean Monnet recalls the beginnings of the ECSC, with its common institutions and its desire to be an open Community.

In 1950, Jean Constant, representative of French steel users, identifies the advantages of a common market in steel products in Europe.

On 18 September 1970, Jean Monnet, President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe, sends a letter to Karl Schiller, German Minister for the Economy, in which he highlights the issue of the flexibility of exchange rates.