CVCE.eu (University of Luxembourg) (accessed 16 January 2024)

The University of Luxembourg’s CVCE.eu website (former Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe) gives you access to documents and publications on the European integration process. It is a major information source available in English, French and German. Select your language preference in the top left sidebar.

See in particular "The negotiations of the ECSC Treaty" and its related "Resources".

Frank Schorkopf. In: Europas Weg: Verfassungsgeschichte der Europäischen Union, 2020.

Im Podcast werden die Verhandlungen zum Schumanplan, der Vertrag von Paris und die Gründung der Montanunion im Juli 1952 näher in den Blick genommen.

Glockner I., Rittberger, B. In: Designing the European Union, 2012, pages 16-47

The chapter explores and contrasts several positions in the academic debate about the ECSC and EDC Communities with regard to the key actors involved in the formulation of the treaties; the nature of preferences of the key political actors; and the rationale behind the institutional design of the two treaty organisations.

Bruce Carolan. In: Tulsa journal of comparative & international law, vol.16 (1), 2008, page 51-67.

This paper traces the respective roles of the US and the UK in the creation of the European Coal and Steel Commmunity, and reveals a US role often overlooked in legal treatments of the early steps towards the modern European Union.

Anne Boerger De Smedt. In: Journal of European integration history, vol.14 (2), 2008, page 7-34.

Based upen research in archives, this article examines the origins of the first European Court of Justice. By a detailed analysis of the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris (1951), it traces the way, strewn with obstacles, traversed by the Six to determine the form to give to the legal pillar of the ECSC institutions and to define its composition, its operation and especially its competences.

Daniela Preda, In: The European Union Review, vol. 7 (2), 2002, page 61-78.

Le 9 mai 1950 le ministre des Affaires Etrangères français, Robert Schuman, présentait à l'Assemblée Nationale française, et en effet au monde entier, un memorandum, le Plan Schuman, qui prévoyait la création d'une Communauté européenne du Charbon et de l'Acier. Une Conférence diplomatique fut convoquée à Paris, le 20 juin 1950, pour étudier le projet et le réaliser. Le problème le plus difficile à résoudre regardait la législation antitrust. Le plan antitrust et deux articles spécifiques à cet égard (art. 65-66), qui avaient été rédigés par Robert R. Bowie, furent inscrits dans le Traité après une longue négociation. Il s'agissait pour l'Europe d'une innovation fondamentale, qui fut ensuite à la base de la législation antitrust du Marché commun.

A. W. Lovett. In: The Historical Journal, 39(2), 1996, page 425-455.

Jean Monnet, the head of the French delegation at the talks held in Paris, insisted on the ‘deconcentration’ of the steel and coal industries. Steel companies would be compelled to dispose of the colleries which they owned. To do this, however, Monnet had to invoke the help of the American high commissioner in Germany, John J. McCloy and his expert advisers. In terms of its origins the Coal and Steel Community can be considered the product of a bargain struck between the Federal Republic and America, not France and Western Germany.