The promise that Europe failed to keep

On May 9, 1950, in the Salon de l’Horloge at the Quai d’Orsay, Robert Schuman read a declaration drafted primarily by Jean Monnet, Paul Reuter, Étienne Hirsch, and Bernard Clappier. From that text, the same lines are always quoted: Franco-German reconciliation, the pooling of coal and steel, war ren...

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