On 14 May 1948, the Luxembourg Communist daily newspaper Zeitung vum Lëtzeburger Vollek criticises the economic and political thrust of the addresses delivered on 7 May 1948 by the former British Conservative Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and by the Dutch Catholic Senator, Pieter A. Kerstens, Vice-President of the Independent League for Economic Cooperation (ILEC), at the opening of the Congress of Europe in The Hague.