The European Coal and Steel Community was created by the Treaty of Paris, based on a plan announced by the French foreign minister Robert Schuman and prepared by Jean Monnet. France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg agreed to place their coal and steel industries, the raw materials of war, under a common High Authority. The aim was to make a new war between France and Germany materially impossible and to promote economic recovery. It is considered the first step in the European integration that led to the European Economic Community in 1957 and eventually the European Union. The treaty was set to last fifty years, and expired in 2002.
Before and after
- from 1951 to 2009Founding of European Communities
- 30 January 1951Birth of Phil Collins
- 20 February 1951Birth of Gordon Brown
- 26 February 19511951 executions in Albania
- from 18 April 1951 to 23 July 2002Founding of European Coal and Steel Community
- 18 April 1951Treaty of Paris
- 24 April 1951Sakuragichō train fire
- 29 April 1951Death of Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 23 May 1951Birth of Anatoly Karpov
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The era
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