"Schuman and the dynamics of the new Europe"

[From the Introduction]. Schuman considered Monnet's approach of multiplying European institutions towards a European federation as 'a little too simple if not to say simplistic'. (1) Schuman was not a constitutionalist who believed that the ancient states of Europe would come together by politicians writing a European version of a Philadelphia constitution. Nor what we may call a multi-functionalist, like Monnet. Europe would not be built by technicians. (He thought the Monnet-inspired Pleven plan for a European Defence and Political Community was ill-timed and was initially concerned it would threaten the conclusion of the Coal and Steel Community treaty)