The Shuman Declaration Of 1950 Analysis
EST1042: European Integration Theories, Paradigms and Key Documents.
Assess the significance of the Schuman Declaration of 1950 and subsequent developments, including the Pleven Plan, the failure of the European Defence Community and the Messina Declaration.
Name : Clive Aquilina
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The European Union currently consists of 28 member states joined together by the same interests and values. It all started when a group of 6 countries which included France, Belgium, West Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy, formed the coal and steel community (ECSC), which its main purpose was to build Europe again after the World War II. A factor that one cannot forget about the rebuilding of Europe was the help …show more content…
The Schuman declaration was the base of what the European union has become.
The Schuman declaration was comprised by a number of flagship targets. One of these targets was the reduction of the risk of war between the Germans and French, accompanied by the target to become the first anti cartel community.
Another target was the inception of the single market, which consequently paved the way for the inception of a political Europe. This plan proposed the creation of an entity of authority, which controlled the production of coal and steel in both France and West Germany. Resultantly, the conflict of interest between these two powers came to a halt. With this, war became "not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible"
‘It proposes the creation, for the purposes of common defense, of a European army tied to the political institutions of a united Europe.’ – Rene …show more content…
On the 1st of June the city of Messina hosted the Messina conference, which lasted for 3 days till the 3rd of June. This conference was organized by Gaetano Martino, who was Italian’s foreign minister at that time. This conference was organized with the aim to create the European Economic Community (EEC) , and all of the six Coal and steel community members attended this conference which where headed by their delegations. The chairman of this conference was Joseph Bech.
On the Agenda there was also to nominate for a member of the High authority of the ECSC , and to appoint a new president and vice president for the next legislature as the current legislature would have come to end in a couple of months precisely on the 10th of February
Assess the significance of the Schuman Declaration of 1950 and subsequent developments, including the Pleven Plan, the failure of the European Defence Community and the Messina Declaration.
Name : Clive Aquilina
ID Card : 245495m
The European Union currently consists of 28 member states joined together by the same interests and values. It all started when a group of 6 countries which included France, Belgium, West Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy, formed the coal and steel community (ECSC), which its main purpose was to build Europe again after the World War II. A factor that one cannot forget about the rebuilding of Europe was the help …show more content…
The Schuman declaration was the base of what the European union has become.
The Schuman declaration was comprised by a number of flagship targets. One of these targets was the reduction of the risk of war between the Germans and French, accompanied by the target to become the first anti cartel community.
Another target was the inception of the single market, which consequently paved the way for the inception of a political Europe. This plan proposed the creation of an entity of authority, which controlled the production of coal and steel in both France and West Germany. Resultantly, the conflict of interest between these two powers came to a halt. With this, war became "not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible"
‘It proposes the creation, for the purposes of common defense, of a European army tied to the political institutions of a united Europe.’ – Rene …show more content…
On the 1st of June the city of Messina hosted the Messina conference, which lasted for 3 days till the 3rd of June. This conference was organized by Gaetano Martino, who was Italian’s foreign minister at that time. This conference was organized with the aim to create the European Economic Community (EEC) , and all of the six Coal and steel community members attended this conference which where headed by their delegations. The chairman of this conference was Joseph Bech.
On the Agenda there was also to nominate for a member of the High authority of the ECSC , and to appoint a new president and vice president for the next legislature as the current legislature would have come to end in a couple of months precisely on the 10th of February