Robert Schuman: Father of Europe
Robert Schuman was European, before there was any institution or organisation representing the continent as a whole. Robert was a representation of the continent. Born in Luxembourg, with his father from an area that was first French and then, due to the annexation of Alsace–Lorraine, German. While he was a native Luxembourgish, his political life was only in France firstly by becoming active in regional politics, in which he strived for regional law to be harmonized with the national law,…