In Paris that day, against the background of the threat of a Third World War engulfing the whole of Europe, the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman read to the international press a declaration calling France, Germany and other European countries to pool together their coal and steel production as "the first concrete foundation of a European federation".
From that moment till the XXI European Union, a lot of efforts have been made. So let's celebrate we are together!
This is 2011 official poster:
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