On 9 May 1950, in an elegant salon of the Quai d’Orsay in Paris, France’s Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed that France and Germany, plus any other democratic nation in Western Europe that wanted to join, establish a “community” to regulate and govern the coal and steel industries across national borders. France and Germany had been at, or preparing for, war for most of the nineteenth and twentieth century, at huge costs to millions of citizens. Moreover, in 1950 iron and steel remained central to national economic success and war-making power. The Schuman Plan therefore clearly spoke to deeper issues.
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European Union
Are the Founding Ideas Obsolete?
Isabelle Petit and George Ross
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2011
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–3 (3 total)
French Cinema
Globalization, Representation, and Resistance
Graeme Hayes and Martin O'Shaughnessy
It is now twelve years since French brinkmanship pushed American negotiators and the prospects of a world trade deal to the wire, securing the exclusion of cultural products and services from the 1993 GATT agreement and the maintenance of European systems of national quotas, public subsidies, and intellectual property rights in the audiovisual sector. The intervening period has not been quiet. Although the Multilateral Agreement on Investment was sunk when Lionel Jospin pulled the plug on negotiations in October 1998, the applications of new central European entrants to join the European Union and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have been accompanied by a continuing guerrilla battle fought by successive American administrations against the terms and scope of the exclusion.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2005
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–13 (13 total)
Introduction
A White Republic? Whites and Whiteness in France
Mathilde Cohen and Sarah Mazouz
of Black group activism, was created. 41 During this decade of growing minority activism, antidiscrimination law gained significant momentum with the enactment of the European Union's Race Equality Directive of 2000 and its transposition into French
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–25 (25 total)