The+Founders


 * The Founders **

//**Jean Monnet (French) ** // //**(1888-1979)**// "//Europe will not be built in once; it will be realized by concrete realizations creating first a real solidarity between the countries".// Jean monnet is considered as a founder of the European community and wanted to transform Europe into a liberty and p  rosperity place.

Negociator and peace man, Jean Monet proposed to the ministry of the French foreign affairs Robert Schuman and to the German Prime Minister Konrad Adenaurer to create a common interest between their countries in order to manage under an independent autho rity the coal and the steel market.  He became the first president of the European Coal and Steel Community. He is also one the of forerunner of the Rome Treaty.

 **//Robert Schuman (French) (1886-1963)//**

Born in Germany. Robert Schuman was a lawer. Its political life was based on the objective to reconciliate Germany and France. On the 9th May 1950, Robert Schuman presented to the French ministers, the Monnet plan. In the same day, a Schuman friend was present to Germany and talked secretly about this “Monnet plan” to Konrad Adenauer, head of the German government who gave straighaway its positive answer.

The Schuman plan created the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952! This commercial community is considered to be the very beginning of the European construction.



 //**Alcide De Gasperi (Italian) (1881-1954)**//

Alcide De Gasperi, gave its full agreement to integrate Italy, for the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. Real partisan of the European creation, he was "dreaming of a European federation" not only in the Steel and in the coal industries but also in terms of culture and policy.

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Lawer, he became rapidly a politician. Mayor of the Cologne city from 1917 to 1933. After the second World War, he became the head of the German government. Konrad Adenauer also ratified the EEC in 1957. In 1963, the French and German cooperation met a new step after the symbolic trip of Konrad Adenauer to France. in effect, together with the “General De Gaule”, he ratified a peace treaty covering several field such as the culture… Konrad Adenauer has been one of the principal defenders of a united and pacifist Europe. He took part of the ratification of the foundation of the ECSC and the European Economic Community.

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