European Coal and Steel Community
European Coal and Steel Community
Det Europæiske Kul- og Stålfællesskab (Danish)
Europese Gemeenschap voor Kolen en Staal
(Dutch)
Euroopan hiili- ja teräsyhteisö (Finnish)
Communauté européenne du charbon et de l’acier
(French)
Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl
(German)
Ευρωπαϊκή Κοινότητα Άνθρακα και Χάλυβα
(Greek)
Comunità europea del carbone e dell’acciaio
(Italian)
Comunidade Europeia do Carvão e do Aço
(Portuguese)
Comunidad Europea del Carbón y del Acero
(Spanish)
Europeiska kol- och stålgemenskapen (Swedish)
International organisation
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1951–2002¹
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Founding members of the ECSC: Belgium, France,
West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Capital
Not applicable²
Language(s)
11 (2002)³
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Political structure
International
organisation
President of the High Authority
- 1952-1955
Jean Monnet
- 1955-1958
René Mayer
- 1958-1959
Paul Finet
- 1959-1963
Piero Malvestiti
- 1963-1967
Rinaldo Del Bo
Historical era
Cold War
- Signing
18 April 1951
- In force
23 July 1952
- Merger
1 July 1967
- Expired
23 July 2002
¹ The ECSC treaty expired in 2002, but its institutions were
taken over in 1967 and all the European Communities were
taken over by the European Union in 1993.
² The political centres were Luxembourg and Strasbourg,
later also Brussels.
³Initial founding languages, before the merger and
subsequent enlargements, were Dutch, English, French,
German and Italian.
The European Coal and Steel Community
(ECSC) was a six-nation international organ-
isation serving to unify Western Europe dur-
ing the Cold War and creating the foundation
for European democracy and the modern-day
developments of the European Union. The
ECSC was the first organisation to be based
on the principles of supranationalism.[1]
The ECSC was first proposed by French
foreign minister Robert Schuman on 9 May
1950 as a way to prevent further war
between France and Germany. He declared
his aim was to ’make war