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ECSC

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ECSC: see European Coal and Steel Community European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), 1st treaty organization of what has become the European Union; established by the Treaty of Paris (1952). It is also known as the Schuman Plan, after the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, who proposed it in 1950.
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European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)

Administrative agency designed to integrate the coal and steel industries of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It originated in the plan of Robert Schuman (1950) to establish a common market for coal and steel by those countries willing to submit to an independent authority. Created in 1952, the ECSC came to include all members of the European Union. It initially removed barriers to trade in coal, coke, steel, pig iron, and scrap iron; it later supervised the reduction of its members' excess production. In 1967 its governing bodies were merged into the European Community. When the treaty expired in 2002, the ECSC was dissolved.



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The ECSC of the 1950s (the EU superstate in embryo) established a Franco-German axis within a 'Little Europe' of France, Germany and the Benelux countries.
The ECSC symbolised and enacted Franco-German reconciliation as the coal and steel industries had been the motors of war between the two nations, whose armies fought to control these twin sectors in the Ruhr, Saar and Lorraine.
 
 
 
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