Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "European Coal and Steel Community" in English language version.
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Europe has now enjoyed its longest period of peace in recorded history, a span of over seventy years since the end of the Second World War.
An important feature was the setting up of a common High Authority to supervise the market, monitor compliance with competition rules, and ensure price transparency.
CHAPITRE VI : ENTENTES ET CONCENTRATIONS; CHAPITRE VII : ATTEINTES AUX CONDITIONS DE LA CONCURRENCE.
World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.
Industrial circles, particularly the coal and steel industries, expressed scepticism and concern about losing influence under a supranational authority.
The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Germany. Any action taken must in the first place concern these two countries. [...] With this aim in view, the French Government proposes that action be taken immediately on one limited but decisive point : [...] It proposes that Franco-German production of coal and steel as a whole be placed under a common High Authority, within the framework of an organisation open to the participation of the other countries of Europe.
The pooling of coal and steel production should immediately provide for the setting up of common foundations for economic development as a first step in the federation of Europe, and will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war [...].
The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.
