On 12 July 1976, during the Brussels European Council, citizens demonstrate in the streets of the Belgian capital in favour of holding direct elections to the European Parliament in 1978.

This article, published on 26 January 1949 in the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir on the eve of a meeting of the Brussels Treaty Council, explains the British Government’s reluctance to subscribe to the plan to create a European Ministerial Council and a Consultative Assembly, already approved by France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Published on 21 April 1959 in the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir to mark the tenth anniversary of the Council of Europe, this article describes how the organisation was founded under the patronage of eminent European political figures. After emphasising the influence of the Consultative Assembly in promoting the European idea and the work of the Committee of Ministers in drafting conventions, the article’s author gives the European Convention on Human Rights a special mention as the most remarkable achievement of the Council of Europe.

On 25 December 1955, the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir describes the implications and the progress of the negotiations in the Intergovernmental Committee established by the Messina Conference on Euratom, with particular regard to the status of uranium from the Belgian Congo.

On 28 February 1957, in the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir, the colonial economist Louis Ameye publishes an editorial in which he outlines the possible impact of the future European Economic Community (EEC) on the Belgian economy and Belgian trade, particularly trade with the Overseas Countries and Territories.

Le 3 mai 1967, le quotidien belge Le Soir se félicite de l'engagement européen du Premier ministre Harold Wilson et souligne les enjeux de la demande d'adhésion du Royaume-Uni à la Communauté économique européenne.

On 30 April 2004, during an interview granted to the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir, the historian Bronislaw Geremek, former Polish Foreign Minister, analyses the implications of and challenges inherent in the fifth enlargement of the European Union and declares his opposition to an unending expansion of the organisation.

Le 13 mai 2004, le quotidien belge Le Soir commente la réforme de la Cour européenne des droits l’homme, adoptée la veille à Strasbourg, portant notamment sur le durcissement des critères de recevabilité des recours individuels.