Schuman declaration

The Déclaration Schuman is the call launched on May 9th 1950 by Robert Schuman, French Minister for the Foreign affairs, which led to creation in 1951 of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), first of the European Communities. Written by Jean Monnet, this text aims at the time sharing management the strategic resources, in order to allow a durable peace in Europe.

It is in particular a question of consolidating the the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), created the previous year and of allowing the reconciliation the shortly after the Second world war. This step takes the opposite party of that of the Traité of Versailles which had imposed on the demolished Germany the payment of important repairs under conditions considered humiliating.

The Schuman declaration thus constitutes for some the beginning of the Franco-German reconciliation. For others, this one results from the Traité of the Elysium of 1963 signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.

The declaration proposes in particular the creation of a High ranking authority independent of the national governments. It mentions the prospect for a European Federation: “ the Europe will not be made a blow, nor in an overall construction industry: it will be done by concrete achievements initially creating a solidarity in fact. ”

In 1985, the European Council of Milan chose to commemorate this event by making May 9th the Journée of Europe.

In 2006, the sentence above drawn from the speech of Robert Schuman is present in his entirety on the accounts - checks of the majority of the French large banks, in capital letters without space and of size so reduced that it is necessary to use an apparatus of the scanner type to distinguish them easily.

See too

External bonds

  • Robert Schuman: father of Europe

  • Gate of the European Union: The Declaration of May 9th, 1950
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  • of the declaration of May 9th, 1950 of Robert Schuman European NAvigator
  • the Schuman declaration on the site of the French diplomacy

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