Austria and European Union connecting people A short history of the European Union under consideration of European values Ao. Univ.Prof. Dr. Anita Ziegerhofer Institute of the Foundations of Law University of Graz
EU connecting people source citation: wikipedia
History of European Integration source citation: wikipedia
Preambel of the Lisbon Treaty 2009 DRAWING INSPIRATION from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe, from which have developed the universal values of the inviolable and inalienable rights of the human person, freedom, democracy, equality and the rule of law.
Coudenhove-Kalergi and Pan-Europe Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove- Kalergi (1894-1972) Pan-European- Movement 1923
MANIFESTO OF GENEVA CONFERENCE OF RESTISTANCE FIGHTERS Geneva 1944 The Federal Union must not interfere with the right of each of its member States to solve its special problems in conformity with its ethnical and cultural pattern. But, in view of the failure of the League of Nations, the States must irrevocably surrender to the Federation their sovereign rights in the sphere of defence, relations with powers outside the Union, international exchange and communications. The Federal Union must possess the following essential features: a government an army a Supreme Court Lipgens, Walter: Documents on the History of European Integration. Vol 1. Continental Plans for European Union 1939-1945 (including 250 Documents in their Original Language on 6 Microfiches). Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1985, S. 681.
Winston Churchill, Zurich Speech 19 September 1946 (abstract) We must build a kind of United States of Europe. In this way only will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living. (...) I am now going to say something that will astonish you. The first step in the re-creation of the European Family must be a partnership between France and Germany. ( ) Great Britain, the British Commonwealth of Nations, mighty America, and I trust Soviet Russia ( ) must be the friends and sponsore of the new Europe and must champion its right to live and shine. http://www.europa-web.de/europa/02wwswww/202histo/churchil.htm
Robert Schuman speech The Foundation of the ECSC source citation:wikipedia
European Coal and Steel Community ECSC is the first supranational organisation in the European History and has 1. authority in own legislation, 2. own organisations 3. is the beginning for more integration.
The Six and the Seven EEC and EFTA
Enlargement of the EUsource citation: wikipedia
The Treaties of the EU souce citation: wikipedia Treaty of the Eur
Art 2 TEU Lisbon Treaty The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
The three A s Antike (antiquity), Abendland (the Occident) and Aufklärung (the Enlightenment) Auschwitz
An original EUropean feature: Sovereignty source citation: wikipedia
Plagued Europe Crisis terrorism, right-wing extremism Source citation: Kleine Zeitung 24 March 2016, Sinisa Pismestrovic
Hans Magnus Enzensberger A Europe without borders in our notebooks! We find Europe in our notebooks when we look up the telephone number of the Polish plasterer, the concierge of a small hotel in Odense, the secret lover in Amsterdam or maybe Graz??. In our notebooks, Europe is present with numerous addresses of holiday cottages in Kent, business partners in Vienna, grandchildren in Barcelona, friends in Rome, teachers in Novi Sad, colleagues in Budapest, vine growers in Bordeaux.
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