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Los efectos desastrosos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la amenaza constante del enfrentamiento Este-Oeste hicieron de la reconciliación franco-alemana una prioridad fundamental. La puesta en común de la industria del carbón y del acero entre seis países europeos en 1951 mediante el Tratado de París, representó el primer paso hacia la integración europea. Los Tratados de Roma de 1957 reforzaron los pilares de esta integración y la idea de un futuro común para los seis países europeos.

The ECSC Treaty, which was concluded for a period of 50 years from its entry into force, expired on 23 July 2002. Accordingly, in the run-up to its expiry, and in view of the benefits which the coal and steel sectors derived from the ECSC research and technological development programmes, the European Council, in the resolution on growth and employment which it adopted in Amsterdam on 16 and 17 June 1997, determined that revenues from reserves outstanding at the expiry of the Treaty should be used ...

This study is the first part of a series which will analyse inter-institutional relations in the budgetary domain, with a particular focus on the evolution of the role of the European Parliament. The ECSC and its budget was a very interesting case with its specific features – autonomy of the executive, a fiscal mechanism, and the capacity to contract loans and lend money. Was this approach successful? Why were these mechanisms not replicated in the European Community? To what extent did the struggles ...