Signed in Paris on 18 April 1951 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, and in force from 23 July 1952 until its fifty-year term expired on 23 July 2002, this treaty established the European Coal and Steel Community, the founding building block of what became the European Union. It created the Community's Common Assembly, the direct predecessor of today's European Parliament, and its Court of Justice, the direct predecessor of today's Court of Justice of the European Union.
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Key ProvisionSigned on 18 April 1951 by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and entering into force in 1952, it established the European Coal and Steel Community, pooling the six founding states' coal and steel production, the raw materials of war, under a supranational High Authority empowered to regulate production, prices and competition directly rather than through the member governments. Conceived along the lines of the Schuman Plan, its stated purpose was to make a future war between France and Germany not merely unthinkable but materially impossible, and it is widely treated as the founding act of European integration. 1 Classification
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Widely regarded as the founding act of the integration process that produced today's European Union.
Source Treaty of Paris (1951) (Wikipedia)
This source names France directly: "in Paris on 18 April 1951 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, and in force from 23 July 1952 until its fifty-year term expired on 23 July 2002, this treaty..."
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This source names Germany directly: "Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, and in force from 23 July 1952 until its fifty-year term expired on 23 July 2002, this treaty established the European Coal and Steel Community, the..."
Source Treaty of Paris (1951) (Wikipedia)
This source names Italy directly: "on 18 April 1951 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, and in force from 23 July 1952 until its fifty-year term expired on 23 July 2002, this treaty established..."
Source Treaty of Paris (1951) (Wikipedia)
Unified the ECSC's High Authority together with the EEC and Euratom Commissions into the single new Commission.
Source Merger Treaty (Wikipedia)
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Prepared the Schuman Declaration that proposed the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
Source Jean Monnet (Wikipedia)
Founded
Established the Court of Justice of the ECSC, the CJEU's direct predecessor.
Established the ECSC Common Assembly, the European Parliament's direct predecessor.
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Signed in Paris on 18 April 1951 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany, and in force from 23 July 1952 until its fifty-year term expired on 23 July 2002, this treaty established the European Coal and Steel Community, the founding building block of what became the European Union.
- Associated With: European Union
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was signed on 18 April 1951 by Belgium
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WikipediaAssociated With: Merger Treaty (Treaty of Brussels, 1965)View the Source Jean Monnet (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationDrafted By: Jean Monnet, European Coal and Steel Community sectionQuote, Drafted By: Jean Monnet, European Coal and Steel Community section
This landmark pronouncement, prepared by Monnet for Schuman and known as the Schuman Declaration, proposed integration of the French and German coal and steel industries.
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