This Day in History

09 May 1950

Robert Schuman presents his proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", for the creation of an organized Europe.

A noted  French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat and an independent political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building post-war European and trans-Atlantic institutions and is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO.