On 3 December 2019, the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Otto von Habsburg Foundation organized a conference entitled “Historical Experience and the Reunification of Europe”. The written lectures are now published.
With the death of the former French President the last great European architect of his generation passed away.
We remember Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
Seventy years ago, on 9 May 1950, French foreign minister Robert Schuman announced the Plan which was the first stage in the creation of the European Union.
70 years ago, on Tuesday, May 9, 1950, at 6 pm two hundred journalists crowded the embellished Salon d’Horloge hall of Quai d’Orsay in anticipation of a hastily announced foreign ministerial press conference.
