There is not only ongoing debate about where the geographical
centre is, but also
on cultural
and
political issues
and Europe's precise borders. Experience our society where norms and values are central, where the polity provides security and prosperity and thus peace,
yields the single market,
runs the Erasmus+ programme, fosters the trade agenda, is working to reform the financial sector, agreed the Europe 2020 growth strategy and where bridges are built between national perspectives on the EU
With his plea for a United States of Europe, Curchill
was one of the first to advocate European integration
to prevent the atrocities of two world wars from ever happening again, calling for the creation of a Council
of Europe as a first step.
The shattered state of Germany, both physically and as a society, in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The narration explains what is being done – and what needs to be done – both by the occupying Allied forces and the German people themselves to build a better Germany from the ruins
9 May 1948, in The Hague, 800 delegates from
all European countries met, with Churchill as
honorary president at a
grand Congress of Europe.
