In November 1953, cartoonist Bouwens illustrates the consequences for France of the immediate application of the draft plan for economic integration in Europe devised by the Scientific Consultative Committee at the West German Foreign Ministry.
Considering it necessary to maintain the social and cultural bodies of the Brussels Treaty, the Consultative Council of the Brussels Treaty Organisation (Western Union) decides to propose to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe a procedure for cooperation in this field. On 15 November 1951, the Secretary-General of Western Union, instructed by the Consultative Council to pass on these proposals, sends a letter to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
Address by Göke Frerichs, President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), on the occasion of the formal session of the Consultative Committee of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) of 27 June 2002. Following the expiry of the ECSC Treaty, the work of the ECSC must be continued by the EESC.
At the fifth plenary sitting of the Committee for the Study of European Unity, held in Paris on 18 January 1949, the Netherlands delegate expresses his satisfaction at the substance of the Subcommittee’s report and hopes that the agreement will be formalised under the Consultative Council established by the Treaty of Brussels.
Briefing note for the press conference given by Enrico Gibellieri, President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, on 24 June 2002, reviewing 50 years of the ECSC Treaty and the importance of the ECSC’s achievements for the future of the European Union.
Report by the European Parliamentary Assembly on the problems of regional policy and the ways and means to be adopted in order to implement such policy in the Community of the Six (rapporteur: Bertrand Motte). As of 1960, the Assembly proposes the establishment of an advisory committee on regional economies.
On 16 November 1954, André Renard, Deputy Secretary-General of the General Federation of Belgian Workers (FGTB), Regent of the National Bank of Belgium (BNB) and President of the Consultative Committee of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), gives an address in Brussels to the Royal Society for Political Economy (SREP) in which he calls for concerted action from the trade unions to build a strong economic and social Europe.
The Committee for the Study of European Unity, created by decision of the Brussels Treaty Advisory Council, meets in Paris from November 1948 to January 1949, with the aim of conciliating the Franco-Belgian and British proposals to institutionalise European cooperation. On 27 November 1948, the British delegation submits to the Committee, for its second plenary session, a memorandum on the proposal for a Council of Europe.
The Committee for the Study of European Unity, created by decision of the Brussels Treaty Advisory Council, meets in Paris from November 1948 to January 1949, with the aim of conciliating the Franco-Belgian and British proposals to institutionalise European cooperation. On 30 November 1948, the French delegation submits to the Committee, for its third plenary session, a memorandum on the plan for a European Consultative Assembly, to which the Belgian delegation has given its provisional agreement.
In accordance with this Decision of 18 March 1975, a Committee on regional policy is established by the Council and the Commission. This Committee is the first consultative body with responsibility for studying the problems of regional policy at Community level. However, it can not be considered to be a body of regional representation at Community level, since its Members are civil servants appointed by the Member States.