Kenya-EU partnership changing lives

This year, the European Union celebrates 40 years of partnership with Kenya. Europe Day celebrates the day the "Schuman Declaration" was presented by French foreign minister Robert Schuman, on 9 May 1950.

It proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community, whose members would pool coal and steel production. The ECSC (founding members: France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) was the first of a series of European institutions that would ultimately become today's European Union.