Group photograph taken at the signing of the Treaty of Paris establishing the European Coal and Steel Community. From left to right: Paul van Zeeland (B), Joseph Bech (L), Joseph Meurice (B), Carlo Sforza (I), Robert Schuman (F), Konrad Adenauer (BRD), Dirk Stikker (NL) and Johannes van den Brink (NL).

In the early 1970s, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Ireland resolutely seek to join the European Economic Community (EEC). The three applicant countries sail together 'towards new shores'.

On 6 and 7 July 1978, the Bremen European Council adopts the principle of creating a European monetary system (EMS) to involve the nine Community currencies.

In February 1979, writing in the magazine L’Europe en formation about the accession of Greece to the European Communities, the federalist journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy, attaché at CIFE (International European Training Centre), reviews the challenges that will have to be faced by a Europe of the Ten.

At the press conference which concludes the Fontainebleau Summit held from 25 to 26 June 1984, François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic, holds aloft the first European passport. From 1985, the European passport is to be introduced in Italy, France, Denmark, Ireland and Luxembourg.

On 1 January 1993, the internal market — an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured — enters into force.

European Commission poster publicising the change-over to the euro.

Televised information film broadcast in November 2005 to mark the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the blue flag with a circle of 12 gold stars by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. This flag was also chosen by the Ten, in June 1985 at the Milan European Council, as an emblem of the European Community.

This TV advertisement, broadcast in 2001 on Luxembourg television, aims to familiarise the public with the new single currency. The euro, as a strong currency, should also make life easier for EU consumers.