Five days after Star Wars celebrated their World Day – May the Fourth be with you – the “fandom” of the European Union celebrated the 65th anniversary of one of its greatest symbols: The sexagenarian Schuman declaration. On May 9, 1950, the French foreign minister Robert Schuman (alongside Jean Monnet) proposed a plan to pool the production of steel and coal in France and Germany under the control of a common high authority in order to end the hostilities that had previously ravaged Europe. This was the ancestor of what we know nowadays as the European Commission. Officially, it meant …read more
Source: European Public Affairs
