The Congress of the European Parliamentary Union in Gstaad (8 to 10 September 1947)
Declaration of European solidarity (Gstaad, 9 September 1947)
TextOn 9 September 1947, at the end of its inaugural Congress in Gstaad, the European Parliamentary Union (EPU) adopts a Declaration of European Solidarity in which it affirms its determination to build a federal Europe.
Cover page of Coudenhove-Kalergi’s report on the plan for a European Assembly (September 1947)
TextIn September 1947, as the first congress of the European Parliamentary Union (EPU) is held in Gstaad, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European Union in Vienna in 1923, drafts a report concerning a plan for a European Assembly.