Founding of the New Europe: 19451950

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Founding of the New Europe 1945-1950

• Founding Conditions?
• Founding Fathers?
• Early Crises?

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Founding Fathers and States

• Heroes of WWII Churchill? Attlee? De Gaulle?
  Roosevelt/ Truman? Stalin?
• None of the Above! Lesser Knowns Monnet,
  Schuman, Spaak, Spinelli, de Gasperi, Adenauer,
  Hallstein
• Who was Jean Monnet? His Vision and Style
• Who was Robert Schuman?

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The Link between Economic and Security Goals

• Cold War Greek Civil War, Prague Coup, Berlin
  Blockade and Airlift
• Founding of NATO
• French Fears vs. Pressures for German Rearmament?
  
• Pleven Plan for European Defense Community (EDC)

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The Schuman Plan What was it?

• Monnets Functional Approach
• A modest Step Coal and Steel
• Economic recovery Agenda
• But with an Institutional Skeleton

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Treaty of Paris ECSC

• High Authority, with supranational control
• Council of Ministers, as limit on HA
• European Assembly (consultative)
• European Court of Justice to adjudicate disputes
  and interpret treaty.