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Monnet’s Five Year Plans
France was being pulled left and right
- Left by government
- Right by Marshall Plan restrictions
In the end, France’s bureaucratic traditions enabled Jean Monnet to provide an elaborate and ambitious series of targets for redevelopment.
Mixture of State planning and Private enterprise
- At first, it was thought that German coal fields in Saar would fund it.
- But, Marshall Aid would take over the funding.