In 2007, Spain holds the Presidency of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This photo, taken on 11 January 2007, shows OSCE officials alongside Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Spanish Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the organisation, at Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna.

On 11 February 2005 in Barcelona, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister, and Jacques Chirac, President of France, hold a joint press conference during which they answer questions on the European Constitution and on the place of Spain and France in the European Union.

Statement on trade relations with Europe made by the Spanish Ambassador to the European Communities, Alberto Ullastres, in Reus during the visit of Pierre Bertin, Head of the Wines Division of the European Economic Community, and published in the Barcelona newspaper El Noticiero Universal on 22 May 1971.

Appearance of Salvador de Madariaga, President of the Spanish Federal Council of the European Movement, Pascual Tomas, General Secretary of the General Union of Spanish Workers in Exile, Rodolfo Llopis, General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, and Enrique Gironella, General Secretary of the Spanish Federal Council of the European Movement, before the Committee on Non-Represented Nations of the Council of Europe’s Consultative Assembly on 16 December 1961 regarding the political situation in Spain.

On 19 December 1961, the European Parliamentary Assembly unanimously adopts the report drawn up on behalf of the Political Committee on the political and institutional aspects of accession to or association with the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 12 March 2004, staff of the Council of Europe pay tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack committed the previous day in Madrid. The photo shows, from left to right: Estanislao de Grandes Pascual, Permanent Representative of Spain to the Council of Europe, Bruno Haller, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, and Álvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights.

Article from the Belgian newspaper De Standaard on 12 May 1977 on the possibility that Spain will apply for accession to the European Economic Community in the autumn of that year.

On 13 September 1988, Charles Goerens, President of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), grants an interview to the Spanish daily newspaper El País in which he emphasises the importance of Spain’s accession to WEU and discusses the reforms under way within the organisation.