On 15 May 1934, at the Vienna Paneuropean Congress, the Paneuropean Union — of which the Austro-Czech Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi has been the President since 1923 — adopts a detailed programme concerning its objectives and concerns.
On 17 October 1949, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Secretary-General of the European Parliamentary Union (EPU), presents a memorandum to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in which he defines his ambitions for a new political and economic structure for Europe.
On 8 November 1950, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, President of the Pan-European Movement and founder of the European Parliamentary Union (EPU), sends to the Governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Saar a memorandum in which he calls for the rapid establishment of a European Federation.
On 12 February 1947, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, the then President of the Committee for the Congress of Europe, issues a memorandum in New York in which he calls on Members of European national parliaments to agree to the establishment of a European Parliament.
On 20 January 1953, in the French daily newspaper Le Monde, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Paneuropean Union and the European Parliamentary Union, considers the pros and cons of a European political federation.
In 1950, the President of the Paneuropean Movement, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, proposes the adoption of his Movement’s flag, blue with a red cross on a gold disc, used since 1923, as the flag of the Council of Europe.
On 29 January 1954, the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung goes over the arguments put forward the previous day by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi when speaking to the Frankfurt Society for Trade and Sciences in support of European cultural unity.
On 23 August 1948, the Belgian daily newspaper La Dernière Heure reports on the Congress of the European Parliamentary Union (EPU) to be held in Interlaken under the chairmanship of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi. In giving itself the status of preliminary parliament for the United States of Europe, the Congress seeks to lay the foundations for a European Constituent Assembly elected by national parliaments.
In June 1948, François de Menthon, Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliamentary Union (EPU), which has the task of drawing up a ‘Constitution for the United States of Europe’, submits the final text of a Draft European Constitution to Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Secretary-General of the EPU.
In May 1934, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, the founder and President of the Paneuropean Union, opens the inaugural session of the Paneuropean Congress in Vienna in the presence of the Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuß.