Robert Buron

Nationality

France

Date of Birth

1910

Date of Death

1973

Political
Preference

Socialist

Robert Buron was born in Paris. He obtained a law degree in Paris and became a prominent French politician. From 1950 until 1962, he served in multiple cabinets as secretary of state for finance and as minister for transport, and tourism. He also was a deputy delegate of France to the Council of Europe. He was of the Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP), a French political party that existed from 1944 to 1967.
Within the OEEC he proposed the reduction of both tariffs and quantitative restrictions. It pushed beyond the Petsche, Stikker and Pella plans by proposing the creation of a common High Political Authority. However, the plan was opposed by the US because it would be at odds with the GATT’s non-discrimination principle.