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.
On the 9th of December 2020, at the initiative of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former French Prime Minister (2002-2005), the issue of European and national sovereignty was discussed in a French-language online conference, organized by the Otto von Habsburg Foundation and the French Fondation Prospective et Innovation with the participation of the French Embassy of Budapest.
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.
