On 10 September 1952, the first meeting of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) opens in Strasbourg with the Belgian, Paul-Henri Spaak, in the chair.

On 10 September 1952, in Strasbourg, the Belgian, Paul-Henri Spaak, chairs the first session of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

On 11 September 1952, Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the ECSC, opens the inaugural session of the Common Assembly with an address in which he sets out the role of the first Community institutions and emphasises the importance of establishing a single market in Europe.

On 11 September 1952, at the inaugural session of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Strasbourg, Giovanni Persico (left), Chairman of the Rules Committee, and Antonio Boggiano-Pico, Italian delegate to the Assembly (centre), discuss business with Paolo Emilio Taviani, Junior Minister in the Italian Foreign Ministry.

On 12 September 1952, the French daily newspaper Le Monde comments on the appointment of Paul-Henri Spaak as President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community in Strasbourg.

Jean Monnet (on the right), President of the ECSC High Authority, discusses with Paolo Emilio Taviani (on the left), Italian Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, at the first session of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Strasbourg on 11 September 1952.

On 11 September 1952, on the fringes of the first session of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Strasbourg, the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer (on the right), discusses with German MP Hermann Puender (on the left), one of the five Vice-Presidents of the Assembly.