Guy Mollet, President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1954 to 1956.

Giuseppe Vedovato, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1972 to 1975.

Robert Schuman and Paul-Henri Spaak at the inauguration of the Maison de l’Europe in Strasbourg on 7 August 1950.

Olivier Reverdin, President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1969 to 1972.

Leni Fischer, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1996 to 1998.

Fernand Dehousse, President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1956 to 1959.

View of the Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii on the Capitoline Hill in Rome at the signing of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe on 29 October 2004.

View of the Julius Caesar Hall on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, where speeches are given during the ceremony for the signing of the Constitutional Treaty on 29 October 2004.

Pens used to sign the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe on 29 October 2004 in Rome.

Seated from left to right during the signing of the Constitutional Treaty on 29 October 2004 in Rome: Romano Prodi, outgoing President of the European Commission; Josep Borrell, President of the European Parliament; Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, President of the European Convention; Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic; and Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister.