However, he opposed the ECSC as a faux (false) pooling ("le pool, ce faux semblant") because he considered it an unsatisfactory "piecemeal approach" to European unity and because he considered the French government "too weak" to dominate the ECSC as he thought proper.
Han modsatte sig EKSF, fordi det var en forkert måde at dele magten ("le pool, ce faux semblant") fordi han betragtede det som en utilfredsstillende "fredstilgang" til europæisk forening, og fordi han vurderede, at den franske regering var for svag til at kunne dominere EKSF, som han fandt passende.