Schuman proposes European coal and steel authority
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To bind the two countries in amity, the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, devised a plan in 1950 for a supranational coal and steel authority, hoping that such a visionary step would make war “not only unthinkable but materially impossible.”15 As a friend and admirer of Schuman and Adenauer, Siegmund believed the ECSC would submerge German nationalism in a European identity. For a German refugee who had lived through the breakdown of European civilization, it was an exciting venture.
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