First Meeting Of The European Iron, Coal And Steel Plan (1953)

Arbed-Belval plant, Esch, Luxembourg (Luxemburg). Possible cabinet members - Mr Vehrer (Luxembourg), Mr Spurembourg (Netherlands), Mr Potthoff (Western Germany), Jean Monnet, Mr Konlstam, Giacchero (Italy), M Finet (Belgium), Etzel Vice President (Germany), Coppe (Belgium). Enclosed is a newspaper cutting and documentation states - a molten stream of French ore, Belgian limestone, Dutch and German coke watched over by Italian labour and pouring out of a Luxembourg blast furnace marked the formal opening of the common market for steel of these six European countries (European coal and steel community). If the ’common market’ works as intended by the High Authority it will have a unique opportunity to do it better and cheaper and in greater output in a custom free, quota free market of all the six nations, free of trade restrictions under a 50 year treaty. LS. Several shots Luxembourg. LS. MS. Conference in session. LS. GV. Arbed-Belval steel works at Esch. LS. Conference members entering steel wo