The first plenary sitting of the Committee for the Study of European Unity, attended by delegations from the five signatory states to the Treaty of Brussels (Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom), is held in Paris on 26 November 1948. At that sitting, the delegation chairmen set out their reasons for participating in the activities and set out their views on ‘European rapprochement’ in the hope of finding a tangible form for that concept during the proposed discussions.