“World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.” – Robert Schuman. On 9 May 1950, the Schuman Declaration proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community, whose members would pool coal and steel production. It was the first of a series of supranational European institutions that would ultimately become today’s European Union. 🇪🇺 On #EuropeDay, we celebrate our unity in diversity. | European Commission

Today is #EuropeDay 🇪🇺, marking anniversary of the "Schuman Declaration" on 9 May 1950. Determined to prevent another such terrible war, European governments concluded that pooling coal and steel production would – in the words of the Declaration – make war between historic rivals France and Germany "not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible".