In this interview, journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and of the French Union of Federalists, explains the reasons for his commitment to European federalism.

In this interview, journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy, a former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and of the French Union of Federalists, identifies the reasons for the proliferation of pro-European movements after the Second World War.

Im Februar 1947 veröffentlicht der Niederländer Henri Brugmans, ein aktiver Föderalist, in der französischen Zeitschrift Fédération einen Artikel, in dem er die Bedeutung des Wiederaufbaus Europas auf Grundlage eines föderalen Modells unterstreicht.

Auf ihrem Kongress in Montreux am 23. August 1947 veröffentlicht die Weltbewegung für eine föderative Weltregierung eine Erklärung zur Rolle des Weltföderalismus als politisches Ideal.

These archive images illustrate the action taken by pro-European activists after the Second World War and their success.

In this interview, Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and former Secretary-General of the French Union of Federalists, discusses the development and concentration of the federalist movement in France after the Second World War.

The National Congress of the French Union of Federalists (UFF), held in Paris on 12 and 13 June 1948, adopts a motion calling for the urgent establishment of a European Parliamentary Assembly.

In December 1948, Henri Frenay, President of the Central Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), and Marcel Hytte, militant Socialist and independent federalist, respond to the questionnaire on the concept of Europe which was published by the Belgian monthly magazine Les Cahiers Socialistes.

In this interview, journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Member of the Executive of the French Movement for the United States of Europe and of the French Union of Federalists, recalls the origins of the pro-European tendency in France after the Second World War.

In this interview, Jean-Pierre Gouzy, former Secretary-General of the French Union of Federalists and former member of the Federal Committee of the Union of European Federalists (UEF), discusses the objectives and activities of the French Union of Federalists, in particular when debates were being held regarding the European Defence Community (EDC).

In this interview, French federalist activist Jean-Pierre Gouzy relays his memories of the Congress of Europe held in The Hague in May 1948 and outlines the events occurring at that time that left a lasting impression on him.

On 7 May 1948, at the opening session of the Congress of Europe in The Hague, Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister and Honorary President of the Congress, delivers an address from the platform in the Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall) at the Binnenhof, home to the Netherlands' Parliament, in which he warns of the threat which the Soviet Union represents for the future of European unification.

Poster published for the Congress of Europe held in The Hague from 7 to 10 May 1948. The red ‘E' chosen as the symbol for a united Europe will be replaced definitively by a green ‘E' some months later when the European Movement is established in Brussels.