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08.05.2025
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The Schuman Declaration’s 75th anniversary
The Schuman Declaration’s 75 th anniversary Pilvi Torsti, ETF Director, and Patrick Weiten, President of the Robert Schuman European Centre, assess the influence of a daring document.09 May 2025 Europe Day, 9 May, is the 75 th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, a daring document that is now considered the taproot of the European Union. Ever since 1985, 9 May has been celebrated as Europe Day. The Declaration was exceptionally short: the English version is under a thousand words. But its ...
The Schuman Declaration’s 75 th anniversary Pilvi Torsti, ETF Director, and Patrick Weiten, President of the Robert Schuman European Centre, assess the influence of a daring document.09 May 2025 Europe Day, 9 May, is the 75 th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, a daring document that is now considered the taproot of the European Union. Ever since 1985, 9 May has been celebrated as Europe Day. The Declaration was exceptionally short: the English version is under a thousand words. But its message was revolutionary from the iconic first line: “World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.”Schuman proposed a merger between French and German coal and steel productions, placing them under a common “High Authority”. He envisaged “the fusion of markets” as the price of peace between two nations that had, in the previous 80 years, fought three wars.“The pooling of coal and steel production”, he wrote, “should immediately provide… common foundations for… a first step in the federation of Europe.”Schuman’s early life was a perfect example of the continent’s fault lines. He was born in Clausen (Luxembourg) to a Luxembourgish mother and a French father who had become a German subject after the annexation of French Lorraine in 1871. He was educated in France (Metz and Strasbourg) and Germany (Berlin, Bonn and Munich). He had bounced between the two countries that were so often at war. During World War II, he...
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