ZAGREB, May 7 (Hina) - A European Commission delegation in Croatia marked the annual Europe Day last weekend in the southern town of Knin, in whose reconstruction it will invest EUR2 million, the delegation said in a statement on
Monday. Issued on the occasion of May 9, Europe Day, the delegation reminds Europe Day is celebrated in memory of 9 May 1950, when then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman unveiled a plan for a limited integration of European countries which resulted with the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952. This community united France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux. spurred by bad experience in the past, France intended to put Germany's coal and steel industry under a joint administration to avert any possibility of a war in the future. The construction of Europe has since then moved forward every year, to the present European Union in which former enemies share
ZAGREB, May 7 (Hina) - A European Commission delegation in Croatia
marked the annual Europe Day last weekend in the southern town of
Knin, in whose reconstruction it will invest EUR2 million, the
delegation said in a statement on Monday.
Issued on the occasion of May 9, Europe Day, the delegation reminds
Europe Day is celebrated in memory of 9 May 1950, when then French
Foreign Minister Robert Schuman unveiled a plan for a limited
integration of European countries which resulted with the
establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952.
This community united France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux.
spurred by bad experience in the past, France intended to put
Germany's coal and steel industry under a joint administration to
avert any possibility of a war in the future.
The construction of Europe has since then moved forward every year,
to the present European Union in which former enemies share common
values, a common currency, and economic interests within a
framework of joint institutions.
(hina) ha sb