Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. In 2021, Schuman was declared venerable by Pope Francis in recognition of his acting on Christian principles.
Robert Schuman, circa 1949.
Schuman's birthplace in Clausen, a suburb of Luxembourg City
Portrait of Robert Schuman, député from Moselle (1929)
On 19 March 1958, the first meeting of the European Parliamentary Assembly was held in Strasbourg under the Presidency of Robert Schuman.
Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics.
A gathering of supporters of Christian Democratic Union in Dessau, 1990