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70th Anniversary of the 9 – 9 May 2020

Statement made by French Minister for Fooreign Final meeting of the intergovernmental Signature of the Treaty creating the ECSC - signs the Paris Treaty in 1951 Paul Henri Spaak, First President of the ECSC ECSC Founding Fathers: German Cancellor Six ECSC Member States ministers meeting Affairs Robert SCHUMAN to propose European negotiations for the implementation of the CECA on April 18, 1951, with Paul van ZEELAND creating the European Coal and Steel Community Parliamentary Assembly, at the first plenary and Robert SCHUMAN at the in Strasbourg in December 1951 integration - Press conference in the Salon de Schuman Plan, April 12, 1951, at the French (B), Joseph BECH (L), Joseph MEURICE (B), (ECSC) session in September 1952 installation of the ECSC (CECA) in l'Horloge - Quai d'Orsay, 9 May 1950 Foreign Ministry in Paris. The Conference Carlo SFORZA (I), Robert SCHUMAN (F), Konrad on August 10, 1952 gathered to finalize the Paris Treaty signed ADENAUER (RFA), Dirk STIKKER (PB), Johannes on April 18 van den BRINK (NL)

3 June 1950 8 April 1965 9 May 2020 Common Communiqué of Signing of , th the participating countries – fusing the European Coal 70 anniversary 3 May 1950 , , Germany, and Steel Community, of the Schuman Monnet Memorandum , Luxembourg and the 18 April 1951 10 September 1952 the European Economic 13 December 2007 outlining possible – to launch Signing of the Paris Treaty First session of the Common Community and the Signing of Declaration 5 consequences for the French an intergovernmental on the establishing the Assembly of the European European Atomic Energy Treaty, reforming and 8 May 1945 Foundation of Council economy of an unimpeded conference to flesh out the European Coal and Steel Community Coal and Steel Community into the amending the Maastricht End of Second World War of German economic recovery Schuman Declaration Community Community Treaty and the Rome Treaties

7 to 11 Mid- 9 May 1950 20 June 1950 23 July 1952 25 March 1957 7 February 1992 1 December 2009 held starts to Opening of negotiations Foundation of the European Taking the Model of the Signing of Maastricht Lisbon Treaty comes into in draft the text of the later Schuman Declaration in Paris for founding the Coal and Steel Community Paris Treaty, Treaties of Rome Treaty – officially Treaty on force, incorporating the Schuman Declaration presented by the European Coal and Steel establishing the European – reforming Charter of Fundamental Community at the Quai Economic Community and and amending the treaties Rights French Foreign Minister d’Orsay the European Atomic Energy establishing the European Robert Schuman in a Community are signed Communities press conference at the Quai d’Orsay

CREDITS: Members of the EP network Photos: © Communautés européennes 1950-1959 © European Union 2020 – Source: EP. Poster design: EPRS | Samy CHAHRI.