LAW 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: European Political Community, Erectile Dysfunction, Spaak Report
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Tutorial 3 the schuman plan for coal and steel. Jean monnet: jean monnet lived from 1888-1979, mostly in france. He was declared unfit for military service in wwi and at the end of the war, he was appointed deputy secretary-general of the league of nations. In wwii he worked for the british government, and then for de gaulle in algiers. He was instrumental in preventing british and americans from replacing de gaulle and in 1946 became the head of the cdp (french. Economic planning commission): he devised both the schuman plan and the pleven plan for a. He was the first president of the high authority of the ecsc between 1952-55. After the edc was rejected by the french, he resigned from the high authority and began to promote further schemes for european integration, and established the action committee for the united states of europe.
