From 1950, the Frenchman Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board, played an active role in the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), serving as President of the ECSC High Authority in Luxembourg from 1952 to 1955.
Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) (left), and Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) (right), during the inaugural session of the Common Assembly of the ECSC held on 10 September 1952 in Strasbourg.
On 10 January 1953, Jean Monnet (left), President of the ECSC High Authority, and Lord Layton (right), British observer, hold talks on the margins of a meeting of the ad hoc Assembly for a European Political Community (EPC).
