Am 10. Dezember 1951 hält der französische Außenminister Robert Schuman vor der Versammlung des Europarates in Straßburg eine Rede, in der er die Mitglieder ermahnt, die Schaffung eines vereinten politischen Europas zu unterstützen.

On 10 December 1951 the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Schuman, spoke before the Assembly of the Council of Europe meeting at Strasbourg, exhorting it to encourage the constitution of a politically united Europe.

Thanks to Alcide De Gasperi’s personal insistence, Article 38 of the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC) refers to the setting up of a European federation or confederation.

On 30 May 1952, the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe passes a resolution calling for the creation of a European Political Community (EPC).

At a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Six on 25 June 1952, the French Government proposes to its partners in the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) that a European Political Community (EPC) be established.

On 9 July 1952, responding positively to an invitation from the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe to the Six, the French Government proposes to its fellow Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) that a European Political Community (EPC) be established.

On 13 September 1952, the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) adopts a resolution supporting the initiative of the Special Council of Ministers to commission a study on a draft for a European Political Community (EPC).

Alfred Müller-Armack, Leiter der Grundsatzabteilung im Bundeswirtschaftsministerium, erinnert sich an die 1953 geführten Verhandlungen über eine europäische politische Gemeinschaft.

In der französischen Tageszeitung Le Monde untersucht Graf Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Gründer der Paneuropa-Union und der Europäischen Parlamentarier-Union, am 20. Januar 1953 die Vor- und Nachteile einer europäischen politischen Föderation.

On 6 March 1953, the Portuguese President, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, forwards to Portugal’s Embassies and Legations a circular in which he sets outs Portugal’s position as regards European policy.

In der Zeitschrift La voix fédéraliste stellt Jacques Spaey, Mitglied des Vorstandes der belgischen Europäischen Bewegung, im Frühjahr 1953 Überlegungen über die mögliche Form der Europäischen Politischen Gemeinschaft (EPG) an.

On 2 November 1953, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool analyses the progress of the negotiations on the establishment of a European Political Community and sets out the position adopted by the Netherlands Government.

Am 25. November 1953 untersucht die französische Tageszeitung Le Figaro, welche Form die zukünftige Europäische politische Gemeinschaft annehmen und welche Befugnisse sie ausüben könnte.

On 14 June 1954, the European Union of Federalists (EUF) publishes a memorandum which calls for the establishment of a European Political Community (EPC), should the Treaty on the European Defence Community (EDC) be ratified by the French and Italian Parliaments.

On 1 and 2 October 1954, the Congress of the Dutch Federation of Trade Unions (Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingen, NVV) is held. At the Congress, Geert Johannes Nicolaas Maria Ruygers, deputy leader of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) and a Dutch Member of Parliament, gives an address on the issues surrounding the political and economic integration of Western Europe and particularly refers to the failure of the European Defence Community (EDC).

On 10 September 1952, the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) decides to establish an Ad Hoc Assembly responsible for the drafting of a European Political Community (EPC) Treaty within a period of six months.

On 23 October 1952, the six Foreign Ministers of the Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community submit a series of questions to the ad hoc Assembly concerning the establishment of a European Political Community.

On 10 September 1952, the Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community approves the establishment of an Ad Hoc Assembly, whose mission is to draw up a draft Treaty for a European Political Community.

Im September 1952 übernimmt der Deutsche Heinrich von Brentano den Vorsitz im Verfassungsausschuss der ad hoc-Versammlung in der Beratenden Versammlung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS).

Maurice Lemaire (on the left) and Guy Mollet (on the right) speaking outside the meeting-room of the Ad Hoc Assembly on 7 January 1953.

On 10 January 1953, Jean Monnet (left), President of the ECSC High Authority, and Lord Layton (right), British observer, hold talks on the margins of a meeting of the ad hoc Assembly for a European Political Community (EPC).

In November 1952, the Study Committee for the European Constitution, set up by the European movement and chaired by Paul-Henri Spaak, draws up an institutional proposal consisting of nine resolutions.

Am 6. Januar 1953 richtet Jean Monnet ein Schreiben an Robert Schuman und an Paul Henri Spaak, in dem er seine Auffassung von der Europäischen Politischen Gemeinschaft (EPG) darlegt.

Am 9. Januar 1953 berichtet die Tageszeitung La Libre Belgique über die Arbeiten der Ad hoc-Versammlung, die im September 1952 von den Regierungen der Sechs mit der Ausarbeitung eines Entwurfs für die Satzung einer europäischen politischen Behörde beauftragt worden war.

On 13 January 1953, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk comments on the negotiations for the establishment of a European Political Community, two months before the adoption of the Draft Treaty embodying the Statute of the European Community on 10 March 1953 by the Ad Hoc Assembly in Strasbourg.

On 4 February 1953, the Dutch journal Internationale Spectator comments on the structures of the future European Political Community and compares the situation with the United States, Canada and Switzerland.

On 19 February 1953, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk analyses the discussions between the Six on a European Political Community.

On 10 March 1953, the Ad Hoc Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) considers the final articles in the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community (EPC) and takes a roll call vote on the draft treaty and the draft annexed protocols as a whole.

Draft Treaty embodying the Statute of the European Community adopted by the Ad Hoc Assembly, in Strasbourg on 10 March 1953.

On 9 March 1953, in Strasbourg, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly (with his back to the camera, first from the right), hands over to Georges Bidault (standing), President of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers, the draft European Political Community (EPC) Treaty, in the presence of Joseph Bech (facing the camera, first from the left), Alcide De Gasperi (second from the left), Paul van Zeeland (second from the right) and Konrad Adenauer (first from the right).

On 9 March 1953, during a formal sitting at the Maison de l’Europe in Strasbourg, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly, officially hands over the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community to the Foreign Ministers of the Six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

On 9 March 1953, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly, hands to Georges Bidault, President of the Special Council of Ministers, the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community. During the ceremony, Georges Bidault gives an address in which he emphasises the importance of European integration.

On 10 March 1953, the day after the official handing over of the draft Treaty of the European Political Community (EPC) to the Foreign Ministers of the Six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), Lord John Hope, British representative to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe and observer at the Ad Hoc Assembly, reaffirms Great Britain’s commitment to Europe.

On 13 March 1953, shortly after the adoption of the Draft Treaty embodying the Statute of the European Community by the Ad Hoc Assembly in Strasbourg, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk reports on the scope of the event.

Am 24 Juni 1953 richten der Präsident der Sonderversammlung, Paul Henry Spaak, und der Präsident des Verfassungsausschusses, Heinrich von Brentano, anläßlich der Konferenz der Außenminister in Baden-Baden folgendes Schreiben über die Bedeutung des Entwurfs einer Europäischen Politischen Gemeinschaft an den Präsidenten des besonderen Ministerrats der Mitgliedstaaten der Montan-Union, Alcide de Gasperi.

Schematische Darstellung der Funktionsweise der Europäischen Politischen Gemeinschaft auf Grundlage des Vertragsentwurfs über die Satzung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft vom 9. März 1953.

Das deutsche Nachrichtenmagazin Der Spiegel berichtet in seiner Ausgabe vom 22. April 1953 über eine mögliche Unvereinbarkeit der europäischen Verfassung mit dem Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

In April 1953, Fernand Dehousse, Belgian representative to the Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community and to the ad hoc Assembly, comments in the monthly magazine Europe Unie on the work of the Constitutional Commission and the ad hoc Assembly.

On 31 August 1954, the day after the French National Assembly refused to ratify the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC), the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk criticises the shelving of plans for a European political community.

Die französische Nationalversammlung lehnt am 31. August 1954 die Prüfung des Vertrags über die Gründung der Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft (EVG) ab, was gleichzeitig das Ende der Europäischen Politischen Gemeinschaft (EPG) bedeutet. Der föderalistische Journalist Jean-Pierre Gouzy untersucht 1968 die Gründe für dieses Scheitern.