From European Community to European Union
Subtitle: An Historical and Political Survey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 24, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415142663
First sentence: On the afternoon of 9 May 1950 Robert Schuman, born in Luxembourg and an auxiliary with the German army during the First World War, stepped as Foreign Minister of France into the Salon de I'Horloge at the Quai d'Orsay and asserted, 'It is no longer the moment for vain words, but for a bold act - a constructive act.'