Tag: Deeply Rooted
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Making war impossible
During this Christmas break, the Schuman Centre for European Studies will republish some excerpts of Jeff Fountain’s book ‘Deeply Rooted’. Today, Jeff explores the international reaction following the Schuman Declaration at the start of the European project in May 1950. The Schuman declaration was momentous news. In less than three minutes – less than it…
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The forgotten roots of the European Union (Part II)
During this Christmas break, the Schuman Centre for European Studies will republish some excerpts of Jeff Fountain’s book ‘Deeply Rooted’. We continue today with another portion of Jeff’s introduction. Faced with the challenge of the reconstruction of a Europe torn apart by rival ideologies, Schuman was outspoken about his conviction that such reconstruction was only…
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The forgotten roots of the European Union (Part I)
During this Christmas break, the Schuman Centre for European Studies will republish some excerpts of Jeff Fountain’s book ‘Deeply Rooted’. We start today with a portion of Jeff’s introduction. Nearly seventy years have now passed since the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, proposed a bold plan to link the peoples of Europe together in peace…