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Max Kohnstamm -"Monnet very clearly stressed the revolutionary nature of this process" (Photo: EUobserver)

'We had no time to philosophise about this revolution'

It was during a trip to a destroyed Germany in 1947 when Max Kohnstamm, a Dutchman working as a private secretary for queen Wilhelmina, became deeply convinced that Europe should take "common responsibility" for its post-war future.

"That journey made a great impression on me," says Mr Kohnstamm who just a few years later became one of the pioneers of European integration and a close collaborator of EU 'founding father' Jean Monnet.

"I was especially overwhelmed by the unimagin...

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Max Kohnstamm -"Monnet very clearly stressed the revolutionary nature of this process" (Photo: EUobserver)

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