Obituary: Bernard Clappier

The Independent - London | October 9, 1999| | Copyright

IF IT is accepted that the two creators of the Common Market that eventually became the European Union were the French politicians Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, then it must be accepted that vital to their success was the civil servant Bernard Clappier.

This inspector of finance became head of Robert Schuman's private office (chef de cabinet) from 1947 to 1950. He was Schuman's closest adviser, in the shifting world of Fourth Republic politics, as successively Minister for Finance, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Clappier was surprisingly young when he began to occupy this ...

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