VL IB: European Policy Making

History of European Integration

What was the community idea ?

  • Establishment of the European Coal and Steal Community (ECSC) in 51 with the Treaty of Paris
  • Coal and Steel under supranational command
  • Ambitious and progressive institutional set-up of ECSC
  • Monnet: peace, stability in Europe only achievable through reapproachment between F and G
  • By placing coal and steel under common supranational authority, war between the signatories would "not only become unthinkable, but materially impossible" (Schuman Declaration)
  • Italy, NL, Be and Lux joined the ECSC

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