History 1401E Lecture : European integration April 4.doc

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22 Mar 2012
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His ideas are very influential seen as the grand father of european union. France and germany needed to find away to live together in peace. Integration would create better markets and create better living conditions all across europe. Organization for european economic co-oportation 1948 was designed as a one time sort of thing. Organization for economic cooperation changed to organization for economic cooperation and development in 1960. Council of europe is still around most countries are in it. Was very sensitive to franco german affairs he felt that european coal and steel could help to reduce tension between f and g. He thought that people should pool their resources together to help rebuild their economies. No one country can dominate the steel market or the organization. Sueize crisis invasion of egypt and this proved that the us would not back them up on everything. European economic community eec or also called the common market.