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'''[[w:Jean Monnet|Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet]]''' ([[9 November]] [[1888]] – [[16 March]] [[1979]]) is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity. Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist |
'''[[w:Jean Monnet|Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet]]''' ([[9 November]] [[1888]] – [[16 March]] [[1979]]) is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity. Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist |
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Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (9 November 1888 – 16 March 1979) is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity. Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist
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- There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection (...). The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.
- Speech to the French National Liberation Committee, 5 August 1943 [1]
- Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace.
- Speech by Robert Schuman, 9 May 1950, written by Monnet [2]
- Continue, continue, there is no future for the people of Europe other than in union. [3]
- Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest. [4]
