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On 9 May 1950, with the agreement of Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer of West Germany, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
Robert Schuman made a declaration in the name of the French government. This landmark pronouncement, prepared by
Jean Monnet for Schuman and known as the Schuman Declaration, proposed integration of the French and German coal and steel industries under joint control, a so-called High Authority, open to the other countries of Europe