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Jean Monnet

1888–1979 · 20th century

Jean Monnet was a French economist and diplomat regarded as a founder of European integration. After the Second World War he headed France's General Planning Commission, whose Monnet Plan guided reconstruction and modernisation from 1946. He devised the Schuman Declaration of 1950 and became the first president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952.

Jean Monnet
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French Fourth Republic

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