THE CREATION OF THE COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY On 9th May, 1950, M. Robert Schuman, the then Foreign Minister of France, speaking at a Press Conference in Paris, outlined the idea of establishing a Community within Europe to control the production of coal and steel. "The French Govern ment," he stated, "propose to place the whole of the Franco German production of coal and steel under a common high authority within an organisation open to the participatio of other countries of Europe ... This will form the first concrete step towards a European Federation,...