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Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe

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Formation
  
1978

Official language
  
French and English

Founder
  
Jean Monnet

Website
  
jean-monnet.ch

Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe

Location
  
Campus of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

The Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe is an organisation which supports initiatives dedicated to the construction of European unity. The foundation is inspired by the thinking, methods and actions of Jean Monnet.

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The origins of the foundation date from a meeting between Jean Monnet and Henri Rieben in 1955 and it is located at the "Farm of Dorigny", in the heart of the campus of the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Archives

The foundation houses the personal archives of Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, Robert Marjolin, François Fontaine, Jacques Van Helmont, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Robert Triffin, and the Earl of Perth.

The Gold Medal of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe (Médaille d'or de la Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe) was awarded to:

Presidents of the Foundation

  • 1978-2005: Henri Rieben
  • 2006-2008: Bronislaw Geremek
  • 2009-2014: José Maria Gil-Robles
  • Since 2015: Pat Cox

    • Publications

    The Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe published various documents, such as:

  • "Red Books" collection
  • 215 titles since 1957 (as of 2015)
  • "Debates and Documents Collection"
  • Issue 1: Jean-Marc Ferry, Les voies de la relance européenne, April 2014
  • Issue 2: Gilles Grin, Méthode communautaire et fédéralisme : le legs de Jean Monnet à travers ses archives, September 2014
  • Issue 3: Pat Cox, From Economic Crisis to Political Crisis in the European Union?, September 2015 (also available in French with the title De la crise économique à une crise politique dans l'Union européenne ?)
  • Issue 4: José Maria Gil-Robles, L'investiture de la Commission européenne : vers un gouvernement parlementaire pour l'Union européenne, December 2015
  • Issue 5: Renaud Dehousse, Quelle union politique en Europe ?, May 2016
  • Issue 6: Pat Cox, Europe after Brexit, July 2016

    • References

    Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe Wikipedia
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