"Father of the EU" Advanced to Sainthood

World | March 2, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00

According to French daily Le Figaro, the Pope is set to beatify Robert Schuman - one of the founding fathers of the EU - next September, as the first step on the road to Sainthood. Robert Schuman is widely seen as the "father of the EU". As French foreign minister in 1950, he proposed that France and Germany should join forces and create the European Coal and Steel Community on an equal footing. Germany agreed and the first institution of the EU was born.

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