Jean Monnet
Jean Monnet
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnetwas a French political economist and diplomat. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered as one of the founding fathers of the European Union. He was a European executive body, as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, and thus he is known as the "Father of Europe". Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected pragmatic internationalist. He...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1888
CountryFrance
Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.
The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.
Via money Europe could become political in five years
Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.