Jean Monnet

The father of Europe

Integration by expert design.

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The planner who designed postwar French modernisation and the institutions of European integration — community-building as a technocratic project from the top down.

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Internationalist modernist.

economic

Indicative planning and coordinated industrial reconstruction.

governance

Built supranational institutions run by technical elites.

Notable for

French postwar planning
Architect of the EU's forerunner
'Monnet method' of integration

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