“Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.”
Quote by Jean Monnet
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Jean Monnet
Jean Monnet was a French politician known as the father of European integration. Born on November 9, 1888, and died on March 16, 1979, Monnet played a pivotal role in the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community, laying the groundwork for European integration. more
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