Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, delivers the inaugural address at the signing of the Statute of the Council of Europe on 5 May 1949 in London. On this occasion, he declares that the new institution has given the peoples of Europe new hope.
On 10 December 1951, Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, addresses the Assembly of the Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg, exhorting it to support the establishment of a politically united Europe.
On 18 September 1954, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, gives an address to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in which he deplores the persistent disputes between France and Germany which led the French National Assembly to reject the Treaty of the European Defence Community (EDC) a few days earlier.
On 10 March 1970, as the eldest member, the Italian Roberto Cantalupo chairs the Plenary Session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg held in order to elect the President and the eight Vice-Presidents of the institution. Before proceeding with the election, which confirms by acclamation Mario Scelba’s Presidency for the second consecutive year, Cantalupo gives an address calling for the European Parliament’s powers to be extended and for the role played by the institution as promoter of the economic and political integration of the Community to be enhanced.
During the night of 7 to 8 May 1945 in Reims, Admiral Karl Doenitz, who succeeded Adolf Hitler at the head of the Reich, and General Gustav Jodl, Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht, sign the unconditional surrender of the Nazi troops. On the 8 May, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, triumphantly announces the news on British radio.
In a speech to the Americans during the World Fair held in Seattle in 1962, the President of the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), the German Walter Hallstein, describes the EEC and its various institutions.
In a speech to the Americans during the World Fair held in Seattle in 1962, the President of the Euratom Commission, the Frenchman Pierre Chatenet, describes the EAEC and its various institutions.
In 1962, at the Seattle World’s Fair, Pierre Chatenet, President of the Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), explains to his US audience what Euratom is and the importance of atomic energy for Europe.
In 1962, at the Seattle World’s Fair, Heinrich Lübke, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), describes the importance of the establishment of common policies for his country.
In a speech delivered during the inaugural session of the ECSC Court of Justice, the President of the High Authority, Jean Monnet, describes how the institution fits into the operational structure of the ECSC and outlines its role. He particularly stresses the supranational character of the tasks incumbent upon this new-style court of justice.
