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  The Future of the EU

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The Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 is widely regarded as the birth of today's EU: then French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman proposed the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), whose six founding states were initially to pool their production. Europe Day 2025 is a thought-provoking 75th anniversary, as a look at the commentary sections shows.