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History, Politics and Institutions of the EC

In: Britain within the European Community

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  • John Pinder

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On 9 May 1950 Robert Schuman, the French Foreign Minister, in launching his plan for pooling coal and steel production which resulted in the first European Community, explained that this was intended to be ‘the first concrete foundation of a European federation which is indispensable to the preservation of peace.’1 Two years later, at the inaugural session of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community of which he was the first President, Jean Monnet developed this theme: “According to the methods of the past, even when the European States have been convinced of the necessity of a common action, even when they have set up an international organisation, they have kept their full sovereignty. Thus the international organisation can neither decide, nor execute, but only address recommendations to the States … Today, on the contrary, six Parliaments have decided, after mature deliberation and by massive majorities, to create the first European Community which merges a part of the national sovereignties and submits them to the common interest.

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  • John Pinder, 1983. "History, Politics and Institutions of the EC," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ali M. El-Agraa (ed.), Britain within the European Community, chapter 2, pages 21-40, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17136-1_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17136-1_2
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    1. Ali M. El‐Agraa & Yao‐Su Hu, 1984. "National Versus Supranational Interests and the Problem of Establishing an Effective EC Energy Policy," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(4), pages 333-349, June.

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