European Union

Are the Founding Ideas Obsolete?

in French Politics, Culture & Society
Author:
Isabelle Petit McGill University

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George Ross University of Montreal

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2011.290201
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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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Introduction
Page Count:
3
Print Publication Date:
01 Jun 2011
Online Publication Date:
01 Jun 2011
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© the Institute of French Studies at New York University and the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard University 2011

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