France
Instead of an International Conference – On the 70th Anniversary of the Schuman Plan
Seventy years ago, on 9 May 1950, French foreign minister Robert Schuman announced the Plan which was the first stage in the creation of the European Union.
The relations of Otto von Habsburg and the person, for whom the 70 years old Schuman Plan is named
70 years ago, on Tuesday, May 9, 1950, at 6 pm two hundred journalists crowded the embellished Salon d’Horloge hall of Quai d’Orsay in anticipation of a hastily announced foreign ministerial press conference.


