On 28 March 1950, the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera comments on the Cold War tensions between the United States and the USSR and expresses its concern at the Soviet expansion policy.
In an article published in April 1991 in the NATO Review, Victor-Yves Ghebali, Professor at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales (Graduate Institute of International Studies), Geneva, analyses the major changes in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) after the 1990 Paris Summit and emphasises the benefits of the Helsinki process — its global make-up, its comprehensive mandate and its institutional flexibility — for the new Europe emerging after the collapse of Communism.
Am 23. Juli 1955, anlässlich des Abschlusses der Viermächtekonferenz in Genf, analysiert die deutsche Tageszeitung Die Welt den neuen Ost-West-Dialog und berichtet über den Verlauf der Gespräche.
In this interview excerpt, Enrique Barón Crespo, Member (1986–2009) and President (1989–1992) of the European Parliament, analyses the implications and constraints of the successive enlargements of the European Community, the value of enhanced cooperation in this context and Spain’s changing position in the light of the ensuing migration flows.
In the midst of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) draws up a report on the development of the Soviet armed forces between 1947 and 1954 and highlights the threat of these forces to Western Europe.
In spring 1950, acknowledging the Cold War context, Jean Monnet, Commissioner-General of the French National Planning Board, speculates on the objectives and nature of the cooperation to be established between Western Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States.
On 13 August 1962, to mark the first anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall, people living in the Western sectors of the City hold a rally in front of one of the symbols of the Cold War.
‘East is East and West is West, and ne’er the twain shall meet.' In 1956, the Cold War governs relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
In 1995, Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, draws lessons from the transitional period that followed the end of the Cold War and refers to the need to establish an effective collective security system within the framework of a European ‘Common Home’.
On 14 April 1949, after the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, the French daily newspaper Le Monde reports on the impact of the Cold War on the future of a united Europe and speculates on how to ease East-West relations.