In February 1948, the Polish federalist Joseph Retinger, in 1946 co-founder, with the former Belgian Prime Minister Paul Van Zeeland, of the Independent League for Economic Cooperation (ILEC) and Secretary-General of the International Committee of the Movements for European Unity, invites all ardent supporters of the European cause to attend the Hague Congress (7–10 May 1948), of which the primary aim is to launch the European Movement.
Power Point presentation on the main provisions of the Constitutional Treaty, following the structure of the text in four parts and protocols, produced for information purposes by the European Commission following the agreement reached by the Heads of State or Government on 18 June 2004.
In June 1986, a special edition of the Staff Courier of the Commission of the European Communities describes the ceremony held on 29 May at which the blue banner with 12 gold stars, the flag of the Community and of its institutions, is raised for the first time in front of the seat of the Commission in Brussels while Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the new European anthem, is played.
In 1951, 12 proposals for flags are submitted by the Secretariat General of the Council of Europe to the representatives of the Consultative Assembly so that an emblem may be selected for the organisation.
The establishment of the Council of Europe in 1949 led to proposals from several individuals for a European flag, following the example of Camille Manné in August of the same year.