Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman9 May 1950
Proposes a community to integrate the coal and steel industries of Europe, the two elements necessary to make weapons of war
France · Government / European Economic Community (EEC). Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Proposes a community to integrate the coal and steel industries of Europe, the two elements necessary to make weapons of war
Schuman proposed pooling French and German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, opening the way to the ECSC.
The European Coal and Steel Community is created, this takes over the role of the International Authority for the Ruhr and lifts some restrictions on German industrial productivity
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