Jean MONNET - Founding father of Europe

POHER, BERCKHOUWER and others in the 1950s

Alain POHER in the 1950s

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flashes the V sign of victory after the first session of the Parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg 12 August 1949

Creation of the Council of Europe

Britain's former Prime Minister Winston Churchill flashes the V sign of victory during a speech on the Place Kleber in Strasbourg on August 12th, 1949

Family picture during the first session of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, with the presence of Paul-Henri SPAAK, Carlo SFORZA, Edouard HERRIOT, Ernest BEVIN and Robert SCHUMAN

Maurice COUVE DE MURVILLE and Robert SCHUMAN in the first meeting of the Council of Europe in 1949 - European Construction

Signature of the Council of Europe statute in London, 5 May 1949

Huge aircraft used by the Allies to transport tons of coal Berliners needed to pass the winter during the blockade to the city imposed by the Soviet leader Joseph STALIN from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949.

Marshall Plan

Summit in The Hague (Den Haag) - Hall of Knights.

Summit in The Hague

Britain's Prime Minister Winston CHURCHILL flashes the V sign of victory during a speech in The Hague (Den Haag) in 1948.

Paul-Henri SPAAK in the The Hague (Den Haag) summit - Hall of Knights.

On 9 May 1948, in the margins of the Congress of the European Movement that took place in Den Haag in the preceding days, Britain's former Prime Minister Winston Churchill flashes the V sign of victory at a major European rally attended by 40,000 people on Dam Square in Amsterdam.

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