It is a triumph of
> the vision of people like Jean Monnet that markets should be regulated and
> answerable to the democratic will of the people, and that negotiation and
> cooperation between capitalist enterprises under this degree of social
> foresight is progressive.
>
> Chris Burford
>
Yesterday a ceremony marked the end of the European Coal and Steel
Community. This no doubt acknowledged the triumph of the ideas of its
founders, including the non-Leninist socialist Jean Monnet and the French
Christian democrat Robert Schuman. It is an example of a progressive
reform within
