On 18 April 1951, in Paris, Konrad Adenauer (Federal Republic of Germany), Paul Van Zeeland and Joseph Meurice (Belgium), Robert Schuman (France), Carlo Sforza (Italy), Joseph Bech (Luxembourg) and Dirk Stikker and Johannes van den Brink (Netherlands) sign the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

On 24 September 1962, Pierre Pflimlin addresses the Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. In this, his first speech since his resignation from the French Government, he denounces General de Gaulle’s European policy.

Ancien membre de l'Assemblée consultative du Conseil de l'Europe, et son président de 1963 à 1966, Pierre Pflimlin relate les épisodes clé de la naissance du Conseil de l'Europe et de son évolution ultérieure en tant qu'organisation de la Grande Europe.

According to Catherine Lalumière, Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1986 to 1988 and Secretary-General thereof from 1989 to 1994, the real institutional innovation introduced by the Council of Europe consists in the sanctions mechanism established by the European Convention on Human Rights.

In this interview granted to RTL radio journalists in Paris on 22 January 1972, Jean Monnet discusses his career and outlines the evolution of his commitment to Europe, which began in the interwar period.

In this interview, Paul Collowald, former journalist on the daily newspaper Le Nouvel Alsacien and former European correspondent in Alsace for the daily newspaper Le Monde, describes the preparations for and the political and economic implications of the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950.

Having been invited by Jean Monnet to visit the offices of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg in 1955, Henri Rieben, Chairman of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe (Lausanne), discusses the mindset and determination of the first European civil servants.

On 22 June 2005, in a plenary sitting of the European Parliament in Brussels, Graham Watson, the British Chairman of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), gives an address on the achievements of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

In this film, largely based on family audio-visual archives, director Delphine Kiefer considers the professional experience of the Luxembourger Tony Rollman in the context of the economic reconstruction of Western Europe after the Second World War. A former Arbed employee, Rollman initially worked at the Luxembourg Ministry of Food Supply before becoming a delegate of the Luxembourg Government during Marshall Plan negotiations in 1947. That same year, he became Director in Geneva of the Steel Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). In 1950, he was involved in drawing up the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). In October 1952, Rollman joined the High Authority of the ECSC as Director of the Steel Division and remained there until his retirement in 1964.

In this interview, Jacques Santer, former President of the Luxembourg Christian Social People's Party (CSV) and former Chairman of the European People's Party (EPP), considers the doctrine and the Christian Democratic concept of a united Europe, highlighting the difficulties faced by the EPP in integrating the Conservative parties of Spain, Portugal and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs).