High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Company (ECSC) in 1957

Various pictures in 1957 of the ECSC

ECSC Common Assembly - Assemblée Commune CECA

President of the High Authority Jean Monnet takes the floor during a Council of Europe Assembly in Strasbourg, France, June 1, 1953

Correspondence between Jean MONNET and Paul-Henri SPAAK

Correspondence between ECSC High Authority President Jean MONNET and ECSC President Paul-Henri SPAAK, February 9, 1953.

Correspondence between Michel DEBRE and Paul-Henri SPAAK

Correspondence between Michel DEBRE and ECSC President Paul-Henri SPAAK, January 6, 1953.

Two Italian members the European Coal and Steel Community assembly, Giovanni PERSICO, president of the Committee on Rules and Antonio BOGGIANO PICO , senior member of the Assembly, who presided the inaugural session talk to P.E. Paolo TAVIANI Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Italy

European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC-CECA) - Paul-Henri SPAAK  speaking to the hemicycle

This film illustrates the coal mining, the steel industry, the Institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (the High Authority in Luxembourg, the Common Assembly in Strasbourg, the Court of Justice in Luxembourg).

Memoclip: The European Community

Film based on newsreels telling the history of the Treaty of Paris (French versionb with shotlist in English). This film illustrates the Schuman declaration (09/05/1950), the signatures of the Treaty of Paris, the High Authority, the Court of Justice and the Assembly of the ECSC, coal mining and steel industry across Europe.

Memoclip: "History of a Treaty"

The Schuman Declaration was presented by French Foreign minister Robert Schuman on 9 May 1950 in Paris . "Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity". It proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community, whose members would pool coal and steel production. The ECSC was an organisation of six European countries created to regulate their industrial production under a centralised authority. It was formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. The ECSC started the process of formal integration which ultimately led to the European Union.

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