Commemorative plaque on the former Headquarters of the ECSC High Authority in Luxembourg.

Panel 12: Negotiations on the ECSC Treaty

Exhibition for the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration

Panel 15: Ratification of the ECSC Treaty

Panel 16: Entry into force of the ECSC Treaty

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Exhibition unveiling

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Reception at the Rohan Palace in Strasbourg

Francois BRUNAGEL, Egon KLEPSCH EP President

Alain POHER, Walter BEHRENDT, Emilio COLOMBO, Cornelis BERKHOUWER, Simone VEIL, Pierre PFLIMLIN, Lord Henry PLUMB, (back) Egon KLEPSCH EP President, Jacques DELORS EC President

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Formal sitting

Mrs KLEPSCH, Egon KLEPSCH EP President, Jacques DELORS EC President

Egon KLEPSCH EP President, Francois BRUNAGEL

Enrico VINCI, Jacques DELORS EC President, Pierre PFLIMLIN

Egon KLEPSCH, Jacques DELORS, Simone VEIL, Pierre PFLIMLIN, Lord PLUMB

Paul Henri SPAAK, President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1952 to 1954 and President of the Intergovernmental Committee which laid the foundations for the future European  Economic Community (EEC) and European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).

Enrique BARON CRESPO, Jose Maria GIL ROBLES, Lord Henry PLUMB, Pat COX, EP President, Klaus HANSCH, Pieter DANKERT, Egon KLEPSCH, Hans Joacim OPITZ

50th anniversary of the European Parliament - First meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the ECSC on September 10, 1952

Informal conversation between Joseph Bech, Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg, Robert Schuman, President of the European Movement International (EMI), and elected President of the European Parliamentary Assembly, and Piero Malvestiti (left t

Swearing in of the Members of the newly appointed High Authority of the ECSC

News articles, tribute to Jean Monnet (Cognac, France, November 9, 1888 - Houjarray, France, March 16, 1979), one of the founding fathers of European construction. He had a long career in the world of politics and in the world of economics and finance. Since 1914, he was responsible for numerous tasks in the service of the French and British governments. Member of the government of Free France since 1943, after the liberation of France Charles de Gaulle asked him to establish a modernisation and equipment plan for the country. In face of rising international tensions in 1950, he developed the idea for a European Community and prepared the famous Robert Schuman Declaration on 9 May 1950. He became the first President of the High Authority for the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) on 7 August 1952 and held the positon until 3rd of June 1955. He was granted honorary citizen of Europe in 1976 and was buried in the French Pantheon in 1988.

Robert LECOURT in the 25th Anniversary of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC-CECA) on 9 May 1975

25th Anniversary of the European Coal and Steel Community

Jean MONNET, one of the Founding Fathers of the European Union. Since 1950, the Frenchman Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board, played an active role in the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), serving as President of the ECSC High Authority in Luxembourg from 1952 to 1955.

Signature of the Treaty merging the executive bodies of the three European Communities..On 8 April 1965, in Brussels, the Foreign Ministers of the Six sign the Treaty which provides for the merging of the executive bodies of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC). After ratification by the national parliaments of the Six, the Merger Treaty —establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission in Brussels for the three Communities— will enter into force on 1 July 1967

Former seat of the H.A. of the ECSC in Luxembourg.

Former seat of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC - CECA in French) in Luxembourg. Picture taken in the 1960s.

Robert Schuman visits an exhibition marking the 6th anniversary of the Six's ECSC Parliamentary Assembly in September 1958

The pavillon of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) at the Brussels Universal Exhibition of 1958

Plenary session of the Assembly of the ECSC - Meeting of the Italian Christian Democrat party

ECSC President Hans FURLER and Vice President Emilio BATTISTA, flanked by Emile VANRULLEN, Jean FOHRMANN and Maan SASSEN attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Milite Ignoto) at the Altare della Patria , also called Vittoriano monument, on Piazza Venezia, Rome, Italy, November 6, 1957.

Plenary session of the Assembly of the ECSC

High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Company (ECSC) in 1957

Various pictures in 1957 of the ECSC

Workers sit on a locomotive carrying the flags of the six Member States of the ECSC

Workers sit on a locomotive carrying the flags of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and pulling wagons loaded with coal crossing the Franco-Luxembourg border, without stopping at it, to mark the opening of the common market for coal and iron ore,  May 2nd, 1956.

Workers sit on a locomotive carrying the flags of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and pulling wagons loaded with coal cross the Franco-Luxembourg border, without stopping at it, to mark the opening of the common market for coal and iron ore,  May 2nd, 1956.

On 1, 2 and 3 June 1955, the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) meet in Messina to discuss the conditions for a revival of the European integration process. Joseph Bech, Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Walter Hallstein, German Foreign Minister, and Paul Henri-Spaak gather on the terrace of San Domenico Hotel in Taormina.

The Memoclip illustrates: - "La déclaration Schuman" - The Signature of the Treaty of Paris - Speeches during the Common Assembly - Historical footage of steel and coal production

Memoclip : European Community of Steel and Coal (ECSC)

Nadobudnutie platnosti Parížskej zmluvy  - 23. júl 1952

Nadobudnutie platnosti Parížskej zmluvy

Po druhej svetovej vojne sa niekoľko európskych krajín chcelo spojiť, aby sa v budúcnosti vyhli vypuknutiu ďalšej vojny. Rozhodli sa dať dokopy materiály využívané na vedenie vojny a vytvorili ESUO.

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Commemorative plaque on the former Headquarters of the ECSC High Authority in Luxembourg.

Commemorative plaque on the former Headquarters of the ECSC High Authority in Luxembourg.

Exhibition for the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration

Exhibition for the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration

Exhibition for the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration

Exhibition for the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Exhibition unveiling

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Reception at the Rohan Palace in Strasbourg

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Exhibition unveiling

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Exhibition unveiling

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Formal sitting

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Reception at the Rohan Palace in Strasbourg

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Reception at the Rohan Palace in Strasbourg

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Formal sitting

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Exhibition unveiling

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Formal sitting

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Exhibition unveiling

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Reception at the Rohan Palace in Strasbourg