For
more than SIXTY YEARS the Great
Charter of the Communityinitiating
EUROPE'S DEMOCRATIC future has not been published!
'Europe
must in the near future introduce elections by direct universal suffrage of the
members of the European Parliament who are to exercise powers of deliberation
and control, in conformance with the Charter of the
Community.' Robert Schuman, Pour l'Europe, p146.
Why
did the EU 'forget' to celebrate its democratic principles?
The
European Commission, the Council, the Parliament and the Consultative Committees
ALL 'forget' to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their birth in 2012 -- the
year the Nobel Committee reminded the by awarding the Peace Prize!
NEW BOOK shows: On 5 May1949,
at St James's Palace, London, Schuman announced to all Foreign Ministers
of the Council of Europe and all foreign ambassadors present that European
cooperation would soon lead to a Community, 'a
vast and enduring SUPRANATIONAL union'. It
would ensure the peace and independence of democratic countries by mutual
support and agreement. It would encourage positive patriotism.
On
16 May 1949 in Strasbourg, he explained that this 'great
experiment' would fulfil the dream of Europeans over
ten centuries for 'enduring peace'.
A 'European Community' would
reconcile nations in a 'supranational
association'. He concluded: 'This
new policy probably constitutes the supreme attempt to save our continent
and preserve the world from suicide.'
On 9 May1950, he
presented the SCHUMAN PROPOSAL, after French Government's
favourable Decision, to Parliament. Then he made a suprise announcement
on the radio and explained it before the world's press. It invited all
European countries to join in the 'gathering
of European nations' by creating a supranational
European Community based on a democratic European
rule of law at first in the coal and steel sector. It would make war
not only unthinkable but materially impossible, and reconcile, unify, develop,
transform Europe and serve its populations and world development in prosperity
and peace.
On 18
April 1951: Six founder Member States, after signing the
Treaty that had been voted in all their Parliaments, pledged that this,
the 'first supranational institution,' laid
the TRUE FOUNDATION
for an organised Europe 'open
to all states that are free to decide'.
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'A peace that was not merely a liquidation of war but a construction of
the future.'
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'The
national flourishes within the supranational'
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'May
from henceforth this idea of a reconciled, united and strong Europe become
a watchword for the younger generations desirous of serving a humanity
free at last from hate and fear.'
ROBERT
SCHUMAN
