The key question today is whether the current crisis in relations with the U.S. will cause Europe to return to the visions of Monnet and Schuman, to times when free trade and deregulation while ...

Schuman and Monnet. Mitterrand and Kohl. Delors and Juncker. Merkel and Macron. And yes, in 1986, the people of my country, Luxembourg, for its role model and perseverance on the road to European ...

Now von der Leyen is channelling Monnet, and other EU founding fathers, through her affirmation that Europe can achieve “peace through strength”. Only by pooling military resources can EU member ...

To prevent a fourth war, French statesmen such as Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman proposed joint custody over the raw materials of warfare – at the time, coal and steel.

To prevent a fourth war, French statesmen such as Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman proposed joint custody over the raw materials of warfare — at the time, coal and steel. And German leaders such as ...

9 May 2025 marked the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the proposal by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (1886-1963) to pool the production of coal and steel – vital raw ...

Prepared under great secrecy by Jean Monnet and senior staff members, the plan involved pooling production of coal and steel. It was submitted in the form of a memo to the French Minister of Foreign ...

Robert Schuman: Father of Europe The man behind the declaration, Robert Schuman, was German by birth but became a French citizen in 1919, after Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France. When World War ...

Schuman Declaration: Monnet’s supranational innovation Jean Monnet, guiding light of the Schuman Declaration and first President of the ECSC High Authority, alerted Schuman and French Prime Minister ...