POLI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Execution Unit, Byrsonima Crassifolia, President Of The European Commission
15 Oct 2017
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International integration is the process by which supranational institutions come to replace national institutions. Sovereignty shifts gradually upward from the state to regional or global structures. The eu is the preeminent case of regional integration in the world. After wwii, europe was in ruins: in 1950, robert schumann, the foreign minister of france, proposed the merger of the. French and west german steel and coal industries in order to use the two countries" coal resources and steel mills more ef ciently. As well, by merging the french and west. Germany steel and coal industries, it would prevent a fourth major war from breaking out between these two rival states: in 1952, the schumann plan led to the establishment of the european coal and steel. Community (ecsc), which included france, west germany, italy, the netherlands, The benelux countries had already created the benelux.
