The "Commission de coordination" (Cocor) of the Ecsc Special Council of Ministers (1952-1964)

This paper aims to strengthen the analysis of the political choices about the development of the European Coal and Steel Community (Ecsc), which took place in the informal political strategic activities conducted through "exchanges of opinion" within the working groups and ad hoc committees for study or for providing legal support to the Ecsc apex bodies. This network was, in some way, the core of the organizational structure and the "Commission de coordination" of the Ecsc Special Council of Ministers was at the center of it. This is the nitty-gritty of this paper. That is, how to investigate the Ecsc decision making processes, which involved input from working groups and committees. [Publisher's Text].