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7 unusual facts about European Coal and Steel Community


André Renard

André Renard was member of the Consultative Committee, similar, in the European Coal and Steel Community, to the Economic and Social Committee.

David Brookman, Baron Brookman

Between 1993 and 2002, he was member of the European Coal and Steel Community Consultative Committee, between 1993 and 1998 joint secretary of the British Steel Strip Trade Board and of the British Steel Joint Standing Committee, as well as joint secretary of the British Steel European Works Council between 1996 and 1999.

European Coal and Steel Community

Consequently, de Gaulle and his followers in the RPF voted against ratification in the lower house of the French Parliament.

Fritz Hellwig

Hellwig left the Bundestag to become a member of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community.

Kenneth Younger

Younger also led on developing British policy in relation to the European Coal and Steel Community when it was first proposed; the government had wanted to participate but was unable to accept proposals drafted by the French government and therefore did not join.

Paul Joan George Kapteyn

His dissertation was about the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community between 1952 and 1958, his father served in that institution during that period.

Wiederbewaffnung

This, along with the Treaty of Paris which cemented the elements of Western European economic cooperation helped to integrate post-war West Germany into European life.


French Fourth Republic

The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was first proposed by French foreign minister Robert Schuman and French economic theorist Jean Monnet on 9 May 1950 as a way to prevent further war between France and Germany.

Venice Conference

The Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community met at the Cini Foundation on the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore to discuss the Spaak Report of the Spaak Committee.


see also

High Authority

High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, the original executive body of the former European Coal and Steel Community.