He has just produced a documentary, Jean Monnet: Father of Europe, which is available here.

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Monnet served as president of the Community's High Authority from 1952 to 1955.

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"It is better to fight around the table than on a battlefield, " he said, quoting Jean Monnet, one of the EU's founders.

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He praises Jean Monnet's dream of Europe proceeding via tariff union through monetary union to political union, and says European leaders should make this a reality.

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The European Union is hardly perfect, but no one is preparing for war or even thinking about it, thanks to the imagination and perseverance of visionaries such as Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman.

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His strongest positive proposal is European rather than British: a plea to reverse the Monnet tradition of putting economic before political integration, which he argues has become unsustainable against the horizon of the single currency.

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Jean Monnet, a brandy merchant from Cognac, in southern France, and Robert Schuman, the French foreign minister, a lawyer from the disputed region near the French-West German border, worked together on the "Schuman Plan, " which Schuman proposed on May 9, 1950.

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Whereas statesmen such as Monnet and Schuman considered the 1939-45 war as the final proof that traditional European political structures needed to be radically changed, the British tended to see it as a vindication of their own long-established democracy and as confirmation of their anti-continental prejudices.

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