The issue of European construction - as its first stage, the partnership Germany - was reiterated from historically by Robert Schuman, in the statement of 9. 1950 in Paris, by formulating a fundamental principle, whose central point and It was to build a high authority - today's committee - to manage basic production - coal and steel - of France and Germany initially, and subsequently the countries that will adhere. The Paris Declaration led to the creation of the economic community of coal and steel (ECSC, 1951), followed by the European Economic Community and the Economic Community of Atomic Energy (1957). The transformations faced by the European communities since its inception, have imposed permanent reconsideration of their objectives, which has led to the establishment of the European Union by formalizing it by the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Union's Treaty.