9 May was selected for the Europe Day as it was on this day in 1950 that Robert Schuman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France at the time, presented the Schuman Declaration, named after him.
9 maj je bil za dan Evrope izbran zato, ker je na ta dan leta 1950 Robert Schuman, tedanji zunanji minister Francije, predstavil po njem poimenovano Schumanovo deklaracijo.