In his opening address at the inaugural session of the High Authority on 10 August 1952 in Luxembourg, Jean Monnet, first President of the institution, outlines the differences between the supranational institutions of the ECSC and those of the other European organisations.

On 10 June 1955, René Mayer, former President of the French Council of Ministers, takes up his duties as President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). During his first press conference, he describes the High Authority as a revolutionary institution.

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.

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.

On 11 September 1952, Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority of the ECSC, opens the inaugural session of the Common Assembly with an address in which he sets out the role of the first Community institutions and emphasises the importance of establishing a single market in Europe.

Article summarising the conclusions of the international seminar, organised in Berlin in November 1979 by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, on the need for a uniform electoral procedure for elections to the European Parliament. Under the Act of 20 September 1976 concerning the election of the representatives to the Assembly by direct universal suffrage, the European Parliament is tasked with drawing up a proposal for a uniform electoral procedure in accordance with the Treaties. The Act also stipulates that, pending the entry into force of a uniform procedure, the electoral procedure is to be governed in each Member State by its national provisions.

In this interview, Henri Rieben, President of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe (Lausanne), recalls the establishment of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE) of which he was, from 1955, the first Administrative Secretary.

In this interview, Jacques F. Poos, former Luxembourg Foreign Minister, analyses the role of the two intergovernmental organisations of which he chaired the decision-making body: the Council of Europe and Western European Union. Comparing these organisations, he draws attention to the benefits of the European Union, emphasising not only the value of the Community method but also the broader aims of the organisation.

In this interview, Leo Tindemans, former Belgian Prime Minister, describes how he was appointed by his peers, at the end of the Paris Summit of 9 and 10 December 1974, to draw up a report on European Union and how he selected the team of people to support him in this task.

The Evian Accords on Algeria, signed on 18 March 1962, are the subject of comment by the main French political parties on RTL radio.