The first steel ingot strucked EUROP is shown by members of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC - Communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier, CECA in french) and its President Jean Monnet at the factory Belval, in Esch-sur-Alzette, in Luxembourg, April 30, 1953. From left to right : Enzo GIACCHERO (IT), Dirk SPIERENBURG (NL), Franz ETZEL (DE), Heinz POTTHOFF (DE), Paul FINET (BE), Albert COPPÉ (BE), Albert WEHRER (LU), Jean MONNET (FR), Léon DAUM (FR).