Maastricht Treaty turns 30
A treaty signed on 7 February 1992 in Maastricht, a small Dutch town close to both the German and Belgian borders, established the organisational form of European cooperation we know today.
European Union
Publication: Historical Experience and the Reunification of Europe
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.
EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
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.
Instead of an International Conference – On the 70th Anniversary of the Schuman Plan
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.
