Tag: Robert Schuman

“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.” /Robert Schuman/ Sixty-three years ago, on 9 May 1950, the then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made the first move towards the creation of what we now know as the European Union.  Click here to learn more. In honor of Europe Day, tonight the Empire State Building in New York will light up in EU colors once again.