In this interview recorded in 1971, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Paneuropean Union, considers his family history, his birth in Japan, his childhood in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his secondary and university education in Vienna.
In 1955, the President of the Paneuropean Union, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and the Director of Information at the Council of Europe, Paul M. G. Lévy, exchange letters on the suitability of proposing that the Ode to Joy from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony be adopted as the European anthem.
In 1938, in the light of the rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe, the Austrian-Czech Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, who founded the Paneuropean Movement in 1923, considers the implications of the Paneuropean Union and outlines the way in which the countries of the ‘Old Continent’ could be reunited in a single organisation.
This selection of designs for flags for the Council of Europe, dating from the 1950s, includes the amended proposal from Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, inspired by the Paneuropean flag, together with proposals from graphics experts and individuals.
In 1934, the Austro-Czech Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder, in 1923, of the Paneuropean Movement, campaigns for the City of Vienna to become the capital of a united Europe.