"The European Union and Turkey in 2010
The EU turns 60
On May 9, 1950, Robert Schuman, then French foreign minister, made a statement that would change the face of post-war Europe.
Barely five years after the end of the most horrendous intra-European conflict, he proposed nothing less to Germany and other European countries than to join forces to reconstruct Europe’s devastated economy by pooling their coal and steel resources under a single authority."
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