Pleven plan

The Pleven Plan was a plan proposed in October 1950 by the French premier at the time, René Pleven, created mainly by Jean Monnet to create a supranational European Army as part of a European Defence Community (EDC). According to the Pleven Plan, the European Army was supposed to be composed of military units from the member states, and directed by a council of the member states’ ministers. However, the French Assembly refused to ratify the EDC Treaty, due to concerns about the loss of national sovereignty in security and defense, and thus a truly supranational European Army had never been created.