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Practical organisation and symbols
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Synopsis
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European NAvigator. Étienne Deschamps. Translated by the CVCE.
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European Movement, Hague conference
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SPECIAL FILES >> The Congress of Europe in The Hague (7–10 May 1948) >> The proceedings of the Hague Congress >> Practical organisation and symbols
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Practical organisation and symbols
No sooner had the idea been mooted of arranging a major congress for Europe than the Dutch Catholic Senator, Pieter A. Kerstens, a former Minister for Economic Affairs and Vice-President of the Independent League for European Cooperation (ILEC), proposed that the Congress be held in The Hague. Having been appointed Chairman of the Organising Committee, he was responsible for overseeing the logistical aspects of the event. This particularly involved collecting within the country the sums needed to welcome, transport and accommodate hundreds of delegates arriving from most of the countries of Western Europe. In view of the shortage of hotel accommodation in The Hague, many participants were put up in private homes. The organisational effort also included providing participants with passes, arranging the translation of Congress material into French and English, duplicating amendments to the draft resolutions and setting up a press room. With the support of the local and national authorities, Kerstens secured permission to occupy the Binnenhof , formerly a palace of the Counts of Holland and now the seat of the Netherlands Government, with its famous Ridderzaal (Knights’ Hall). Every year, this Hall adjacent to the Netherlands Parliament accommodates the States-General of the Netherlands, before which the Queen pron (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Submission of a proposal for a European Assembly by the European Movement (Paris, 9 December 1948)
Cover of a British work on the implications of the Congress of Europe in The Hague (1949)
Note from Ronald W. G. Mackay on a meeting of the British delegation to The Hague held in the House of Commons (2 June 1948)
'Congress of Europe goes warily' from The Manchester Guardian (10 May 1948)
Dutch cartoon on the process of European unity (15 May 1948)
Joseph Retinger
Letter from Slovenian activists to Winston Churchill (6 May 1948)
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