EC Library Guide on the Schuman Declaration: Research
A selection of research on the anniversaries of the Schuman Declaration
75th Anniversary
- 2025 - 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration
Centre européen Robert Schuman (CERS), website (accessed 4 March 2025)
The CERS is placing this anniversary at the heart of its annual program in 2025.
70th Anniversary
- 70th Anniversary of the Schuman Declaration 1950-2020Comprehensive website and e-book of EUROM (European Observatory on Memories)
L'Héritage européen de Robert Schuman : du fédéralisme à la souveraineté (Histoire et diplomatie) by Publication Date: 2020À l'occasion du 70e anniversaire de la Déclaration Schuman du 9 mai 1950, le ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères présente l'état actuel de la réflexion historique sur la contribution de Robert Schuman à la création et au développement de l'Europe communautaire, devenue depuis l'Union européenne
- Schuman at seventy
Duff, Andrew, European Policy Center, commentary, 2020, (accessed 11 March 2025)
- La Unión Europea a la luz de la historia: Un balance setenta años después (1950-2020)
Seventy years after Robert Schuman’s «Declaration» of 9 May 1950, which set
Pérez Sánchez, G. A., Historia y Política, (44), 2020, pages 145–170.
the process of European integration in motion in a reliable way, it seems a very
appropriate moment to present an assessment of the process in the light of history.
At the same time, from certain sectors of academia, politics and the media, the
Eurosceptics, not to mention the most clearly anti-European, and in relation to the
uncertainty in which the European Union seems to be, have begun to raise doubts
about the validity of the integration project itself. Faced with these questions, and
depending on the positive balance that, according to the still majority feeling, can
be presented seventy years later, it is argued, paraphrasing the enlightened, that if the
European Union did not exist, it would have to be invented.
65th anniversary
- Towards a “New Schuman Declaration”
Amato, G., Guigou, E., Vike-Freiberga, V., Weiler, JHH, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 13 (2), 2015, pages 339–342.
Sixty five years ago Robert Schuman wrote that concrete achievements were needed to create solidarity among Europeans and upon this basis to build Europe. Today concrete achievements are equally needed to restore solidarity among Europeans and upon this basis to re-vitalize Europe.
60th Anniversary
- Commemorating Europe? : Forging European rituals of remembrance through anniversaries
Hannes Hansen-Magnusson and Jenny Wüstenberg. In: Politique européenne, 2012, vol. 37 (2), page 44-70
Through an analysis of European newspapers, practices of memorializing the dates of two key events in the history of the European Union: the declaration by Robert Schuman on May 9 1950, and the signing of the Treaties of Rome on March 25 1957 are examined and compared.
- Der Schuman-Plan und die Zukunft der Europäischen Union
Wilfried Loth.
Integration 2010, v. 33, n. 4, page [350]-357
60 Jahre nach der Regierungserklärung vom 9. Mai 1950, in der der französische Außenminister Robert Schuman vorschlug, „die gesamte deutsche und französische Kohle- und Stahlproduktion einer gemeinsamen Hohen Behörde zu unterstellen, in einer Organisation, die für die Beteiligung der anderen europäischen Länder offen ist“,1 liegen die Anfänge der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) im Nebel mythischer Vorzeit. Warum gerade Kohle und Stahl? Warum 1950?
- The Schuman Plan 60 Years Later: A Model for the Middle East?
Hans-Gert Pöttering. In: European view, 2010, Vol.9 (1), page 93-96
Europe has a special responsibility towards Israel and the Palestinian Authority, not only because the EU is the largest aid donor in the region, but also because of Europe's historical legacy. Granted, European integration cannot be transplanted to the Middle East; however, the plan set in motion by Robert Schuman 60 years ago can provide a starting point for regional cooperation in the Middle East.
- Has Europe Solved the Problem of War? Explaining the 'Long Peace' of the Post-1945 Era
Green, David Michael, European review, 18 (3), 2010, pages 365-377.
May 9, 2010, marks the 60th anniversary of what is arguably the boldest and ostensibly the most successful experiment in the history of international politics. On that date, in 1950, the Schuman Declaration(1) was issued, seeking to release Europe from its centuries of fratricidal war, those conflagrations having just previously reached near suicidal proportions.
50th Anniversary
Le droit communautaire et les métamorphoses du droit : Journée d'études organisée à Strasbourg le 9 mai 2000 by ISBN: 2868202438Publication Date: 2003Sommaire: L'impact du droit communautaire sur le droit pénal / André Huet -- L'impact du droit communautaire sur le droit économique / Laurence Idot -- Droit harmonisé, droit uniforme, droit commun ? / Gérard Soulier -- Le droit communautaire et le juge national / Guy Canivet -- Annexe : texte de la Déclaration du 9 mai 1950
50 joer Schuman Plang : Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet et les débuts de l'Europe by Publication Date: 2000Reprend l'ouvrage "Robert Schuman, 1886-1986 : les racines et l'oeuvre d'un grand européen" et le fascicule "Robert Schuman, 1886-1986 : les cérémonies commémoratives du 17 juin 1986 à Luxembourg".
40th Anniversary
- Quarante ans après l'appel de Robert Schuman
Pierre Pflimlin. In: Studia Diplomatica Bruxelles, vol. 44. (1) 1991, page 29-40.
Texte du discours prononcé à l'IRRI le 10 mai 1991 à l'occasion du quarantième anniversaire de la déclaration de Robert Schuman (le 9 mai 1950).
20th Anniversary
Des ententes de maîtres de forges au Plan Schuman by Publication Date: 1970Deuxième édition a l'occasion du vingtième anniversaire du Plan Schuman.
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