Group photo of the Heads of State or Government of the member States of the Council of Europe taken at their meeting in Strasbourg on 10 and 11 October 1997 on the occasion of that organisation’s Second Summit.
In the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, the members are seated by alphabetical order in order to avoid the formation of national groups. On 11 August 1949, in the hall of Strasbourg University Winston Churchill, the British member, sits between Frans van Cauwelaert and Mario Cingolani, the Belgian and the Italian members.
On 6 July 1955, the ministerial bench pays close attention to the debates held during the seventh session of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. From left to right: Harold Macmillan from the United Kingdom, Heinrich von Brentano from Germany, Paul-Henri Spaak from Belgium and Jan Willem Beyen from the Netherlands.
