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3 unusual facts about Robert Marjolin


Hans von der Groeben

He is responsible for the fact that the EEC received a contractually specified free market framework and found a kindred spirit in the French delegation leader, Robert Marjolin.

Robert Marjolin

His research at this time as well as his later political work was strongly affected by the New Deal programs of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1958 he was appointed one of the two French European Commissioners on the first European Commission, the Hallstein Commission with responsibility for the economics and finance portfolios.



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