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10 August 1949: first session of PACE forerunner held in Strasbourg
La première session de l’Assemblée consultative, qui devint plus tard l'Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l'Europe (APCE), se tint le mercredi 10 août 1949, dans l’aula du Palais universitaire, place Brant, à Strasbourg. Le président provisoire, l’homme d’État français Edouard Herriot,...
Greece marks anniversary of joining the Council of Europe
On 9 August 1949, Greece became the eleventh member of the Council of Europe. The organisation had been founded in London three months earlier on 5 May by the ten original member countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United...
8 August 1949: first meeting of the Committee of Ministers
Monday 8th August 1949 marked the start of a momentous week for the Council of Europe. It began with a meeting chaired by Belgium’s long-serving Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, which saw the first gathering of the Committee of Ministers. Later in the week there was a similar debut for the...
