Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister (on the left), and Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board (on the right).

Group photo taken at the signing ceremony of the Treaty of Lisbon, held on 13 December 2007 in the Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon.

En 1986, le caricaturiste français Plantu ironise sur les difficultés liées à la multiplicité des sièges des institutions communautaires.

Aerial view of the Kirchberg district in Luxembourg. On the left: in the foreground are the buildings of the Court of Justice of the European Communities; in the middle distance is the European Commission's ‘Jean Monnet' Building. On the right: in the foreground are the buildings of the Secretariat of the European Parliament; behind them is the European Court of Auditors.

On 10 August 1952, the inaugural session of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) takes place in Luxembourg under the presidency of Jean Monnet.

The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) High Authority building, in Place de Metz, Luxembourg.

During renovation work on the Kirchberg Conference Centre and from 1 October 2003, the Council holds its April, June and October meetings in the Kiem Conference Centre in Luxembourg.

During its first two years, the ECSC Special Council of Ministers holds its meetings in the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies, including, in particular, its first meeting on 9 and 10 September 1952. View of the main entrance.

This film, made in 1958 by the Information Service of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), portrays the activities and the operation of the ECSC.

On 10 December 1952, in Luxembourg, the first seven judges at the Court of Justice of the ECSC are sworn in. One after the other, they swear to perform their duties impartially and conscientiously and not to divulge the confidential substance of their deliberations.

Until October 1954, the sittings of the Court of Justice are held in the office of the Court’s President, Massimo Pilotti, in the Villa Vauban, Luxembourg.

Since the Court of Justice of the European Coal and Steel Community did not have a courtroom in the Villa Vauban, it decided to hold its sessions in the Great Hall of the Cercle Municipal situated on the Place d’Armes, Luxembourg.

Aerial view of the buildings of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on the Kirchberg Plateau, Luxembourg. In the middle distance, in the centre of the photo, is the ‘Palais' of the Court of Justice. In the foreground are its annexes. From right to left, in order of construction, are the Erasmus Building, opened on 5 October 1988, the Thomas More Building, opened on 19 February 1993, and the C Building, opened on 15 September 1994.

The main courtroom of the Court of Justice of the European Communities on the Kirchberg Plateau, Luxembourg.

Aerial view of the Court of Auditors' building in Luxembourg, where it has its seat.

Aerial view of the European Investment Bank (EIB) on the Kirchberg Plateau, Luxembourg.