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Address given by Konrad Adenauer on continuing European integration (Brussels, 25 September 1956)
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PA AA, [s.l.]. B10 Abteilung II, Politische Abteilung. Bd. 918, Brüsseler Integrationskonferenz.
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European cooperation, European integration, supranationality
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On 25 September 1956, having been invited to speak at the Grandes Conférences Catholiques in Brussels, the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, delivers an address in which he offers his vision of the role of Europe in the world and expresses some reservations with regard to the establishment of new supranational institutions in Europe.
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SPECIAL FILES >> European revival and the Rome Treaties >> The Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom >> The Treaty establishing the European Economic Community >> The EEC institutions
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Speech by Konrad Adenauer on the possibilities of European Unification (Brussels, 25 September 1956)
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I first of all express my warm thanks for the invitation to address this distinguished gathering. I am particularly grateful for the opportunity to speak on “Europe”. In recent years there have been various lectures given to you on European integration policy, i.a. by Messrs. Bidault, Pleven, Schuman, van Zeeland and Pella. It is thus inevitable that I shall have to reiterate many an idea that has been presented to you before. For this I would ask your forgiveness. But the “European need” – I use this expression intentionally – has been increasing steadily since those speeches were made without Europeans having roused themselves to anything more than a series of conferences. It is only in a few individual cases that they have hesitantly and laboriously decided on joint action. I do not wish primarily to speak on common economic interests but on the political responsibility which is ours because of the Christian heritage shared by all Europeans peoples, and on the imperative need of creating a common European policy of the European nations. This seems particularly necessary to me because there are signs of a completely new political grouping in the world which demands that we investigate its consequences for the nat (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
1950–1956 The formation of the community of Europe
Cartoon by Ekö on General de Gaulle's European policy (7 September 1960).
Cartoon by Yardley on the United States and the slow progress of European economic unification (5 February 1950)
Nordic cooperation
Cartoon by Pinatel on Robert Schuman and European integration (August 1949)
Cartoon by Stig on the activities of the Council of Europe (10 May 1953)
Cartoon by Behrendt on Paul_Henri Spaak's role in the preparations for the Rome Treaties (17 February 1957)
Political endorsement of the Plan
Telegram from Dean Acheson to James E. Webb on the Schuman Plan (12 May 1950)
Address given by António Marta as he takes office (Lisbon, 12 July 1983)
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