舒曼计划是1950年5月9日法国外交部长罗伯特·舒曼在法国外交部驻地奥赛码头（Quai d'Orsay）时钟沙龙（Salon de l'Horloge）在一次记者招待会上公布的一个计划。在这个计划中他建议将德国与法国的煤和钢铁生产融合到一起：

舒曼计划是法国外交部非常保密的一份文档，它是由让·莫内为首写出来的。只有德国总理康拉德·阿登纳在文档被公布前数小时内被知会。阿登纳立刻表示同意。

该高级公署的迫切任务包括：

舒曼在美国、英国和法国外交部长共同在伦敦举行会议商讨新的欧洲政策策略前数天内公布了舒曼计划，虽然在此前其它国家的政治家不知道这个计划的存在，但是在伦敦会议上它成为讨论最多的文档。

The Schuman Declaration is the statement laid forward by the French foreign minister Robert Schuman on 9 May 1950. Inspired and for the most part drafted by Jean Monnet, this was a proposal to place Franco-German production of coal and steel under one common High Authority. This organization would be open to participation to other European countries. This cooperation was to be designed in such a way as to create common interests between European countries which would lead to gradual political integration, a condition for the pacification of relations between them: “Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity. The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Germany”.