PDF - Voices of Europe (1998)

Preface by Daniel Tarschys
Secretary General of the Council of Europe

Preface by Leni Fischer
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Léon Blum, Vice-President of the Conseil de la République française,
     Bold and eager, 8 August 1949

Edouard Herriot, Provisional President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, President of the French National Assembly,
     The First Sitting, 10 August 1949

Winston Churchill, Chairman of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940-45 and 1951-55),
     Europe against tyranny, 12 August 1949
     The force of the spirit, 17 August 1949

Léopold Sédar Senghor, member of the French National Assembly (President of the Republic of Senegal, 1960-80),
     The common good, 26 August 1949

Paul Reynaud, Minister for Finance of the French Republic (President of the Conseil de la République française, 1940)
     Federal state or confederation?, 9 August 1950
     A three-storey house, 9 August 1950

Robert Schuman, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic,
     A supranational authority, 10 August 1950

Winston Churchill, Chairman of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940-45 and 1951-55),
     For a unified European army, 11 August 1950

Guy Mollet, Secretary General of the SFIO (the French section of the Worker’s International)
     True courage, 18 August 1950

Harold MacMillan, Chariman of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1957-63)
     Doubts, difficulties, hesitations, 24 November 1950

Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Italy
     Defending a greater fatherland, 10 December 1951

Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe
     Suicidal moderation, 11 December 1951

Konrad Adenauer, Federal Chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany
     Little Europe and greater Europe, 20 May 1954

Heinrich von Brentano, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany
     Détente through German reunification, 18 April 1956

Pierre Pflimlin, President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe
     The people’s wishes, 3 May 1965

Harlod Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
     Europe without sacrifice, 23 January 1967

Willy Brandt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany
     “A certain weariness”, 13 May 1969

Edgar Faure, Minister for Education of the French Republic
     Culturally speaking a citizen of Europe, 1 October 1969

Angie Brooks, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations and Under-Secretary of State for Liberia
     Building a bridge between Europe and Africa, 20 April 1970

Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
     From the old world a new voice, 21 January 1972

Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel
     At what price the fight against terrorism?, 1 October 1973

Alain Poher, Acting President of the French Republic
     Lighting the homes fires of love, 6 May 1974

Françoise Giroud, French Secretary of State for Women
     A womanʼs Europe, 30 September 1974

Giovanni Spadolini, Italian Minister for the Cultural Heritage
     Culture – the religion of freedom, 24 January 1975

Bruno Kreisky, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
     A political forum for North-South dialogue, 5 May 1976

Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
     Europe as a political moral code, 27 April 1978

Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Malta
     The political soul of Europe, 28 September 1978

Adolfo Suárez, President of Spain
     Europe is too small for Europeans to live apart, 31 January 1979

Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
     The “L” factor, 5 October 1979

Moshe Dayan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Israel
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Egypt
     The challenge of peace, 10 October 1979

Robert Badinter, French Minister for Justice
     Individuals, subjects of international law, 2 October 1981

Karl Carstens, President of the Federal Republic of Germany
     The law of the people at the service of the individual, 26 January 1983

Sandro Pertini, President of the Republic of Italy
     Land of the setting sun, 27 April 1983

Felipe González, President of Spain
     A humanist Europe, 31 January 1984

Ramalho Eanes, President of the Republic of Portugal
     Democracy and development, 9 May 1984

Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
     “The heralds of hope”, 28 January 1986

His Holiness Pope John Paul II
     A desire for peace and understanding, 8 October 1988

François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic
     The Council of Europe, guardian of freedoms, 5 May 1989

Mikhaïl Gorbachev, President of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
     The common European home, 6 July 1989

Turgut Özal, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
     A common democratic home, 27 September 1989

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
     What Europe for the year 2000?, 30 January 1990

Georges Vassiliou, President of the Republic of Cyprus
     A European confederation, 31 January 1990

Catherine Lalumière, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
     The Council of Europe and the edification of the greater Europe, 28 February 1990

Edward Shevardnadze, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union,
     Towards the end of the division of Europe, 4 March 1990

Václav Havel, President of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
     The power of dreaming, 10 May 1990

Zhelyu Zhelev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria
     Slavonic genius, European genius, 31 January 1991

Constantin Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of the Greek Republic
     Fighting for freedom with bare hands, 23 April 1991

Francesco Cossiga, President of the Republic of Italia
     The moral requirements of freedom, 24 April 1991

Flavio Cotti, President of the Swiss Confederation
     The Europe of concentric circles, 20 September 1991

Lech Walesa, President of the Republic of Poland
     An appeal to the West, 4 February 1992

François Mitterand, President of the French Republic
     The great idea of the greater Europe, 4 May 1992

Jószef Antall, Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary
     Geographic, cultural and spiritual union, 30 June 1992

Lord Owen, Co-chairman of the International Conference on Peace in the Former Yugoslavia
     Is Europe witnessing another holocaust?, 3 October 1992

Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
     German unity, European unity, 2 February 1993

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway
     In praise of universal tolerance, 4 February 1993

Vigdis Finnbogadóttir, President of the Republic of Iceland
     Unity through diversity, 28 September 1993

Vienna Declaration
     Towards a vast area of democratic security, 9 October 1994

Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel
The road to peace across Europe, 28 January 1994

Yasser Arafat, President of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
     The peace of the brave, 13 April 1994

Mary Robinson, President of the Republic of Ireland
     Europe’s “fifth province”, 29 June 1994

Daniel Tarschys, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
     Inclusion is better than exclusion, 4 October 1994

Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic
     Going into Europe with our eyes open, 29 June 1995

King Hussein of Jordan
     A Euro-Jordanian partnership, 25 September 1995

Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
     “I believe in Europe”, 28 September 1995

Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine
     The many dimensions of security, 23 April 1996