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The Nouvelles Équipes Internationales (NEI)
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European NAvigator. Etienne Deschamps. Translated by the CVCE.
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Christian Democratic Party, Nouvelles équipes internationales, promotion of the European idea
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HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1945–1949 The pioneering phase >> The European idea >> The federalist movements >> The Nouvelles Équipes Internationales
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The Nouvelles Équipes Internationales (NEI)
The Nouvelles Équipes Internationales (New International Teams — NEI), officially founded in June 1947 at Chaudfontaine, near Liège, were openly inspired by Christian Democracy. They counted among their ranks such eminent Europeans as Robert Schuman, Georges Bidault, Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer. The NEI was founded on the initiative of the French Popular Republican, Robert Bichet, who was very quickly supported by the Belgian, Désiré Lamalle, and the President of the Belgian Christian Socialist Party, Auguste de Schryver. The NEI was a fairly flexible association of individuals and aimed at establishing a Christian Democratic International. The movement was, nevertheless, accessible to non-Catholics if they accepted the central theme of social democracy. Originally, the NEI were first and foremost conceived as a way of blocking the road to Communism, and as a response to the Kominform , created by Stalin in October 1947 with the aim of ensuring regular contact between European Communist parties. However, the NEI quickly saw European integration as the best way of defending the Christian values of Western Europe when facing the Soviet bloc in a Cold War context. The NEI focused more on the social rather than the economic aspect of European integration, in this way remaining loyal t (...) Read more in ENA |
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Cartoon by Low on the impact of the Cold War on the plan for a united Europe (1 February 1949)
Resolution adopted by the Gstaad Conference (Gstaad, 9 September 1947)
Message to Europeans (The Hague, 10 May 1948)
Cartoon by Illingworth on the issues surrounding the Italian elections (19 April 1948)
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