Pleven plan

Pleven plan

First plan for an integrated defence co-operation among the original EEC Six. It was named after the French Prime Minister who proposed it in 1950. The scheme collapsed when it failed to get majority support in the French National Assembly.

After this Monnet and the euro-federalists decided that it had been premature and that they should concentrate on economic integration first. Political and military integration would follow later, rather than the other way around.

Notes

The plan – like the Schuman Plan for the European Coal and Steel Community – was actually devised and written by Jean Monnet.

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