On May Day Schuman sent a message to Monnet: "I've read the proposal. I'll make it my own". The core of Schuman's initiative was that the member States would agree to pool their national sovereignty in the area of coal and steel under the umbrella of a community.
With the exemption applying to mortgage banks in Denmark, we have chosen to keep up the risky ties between the government and the financial sector. We should know better than that.