1. Europe after 1945
Political history

2. European Union Countries
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Greece
Spain
Netherlands
Ireland
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Germany
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovénia
Sweden
Slovakia
Hungary
Italy
United Kingdom
Latvia

4. 7 May 1948
Fostered by the International Coordination of Movements for the Unification of Europe Committee, the Europe Congress meets in The Hague, The Netherlands. It is chaired by Winston Churchill and attended by 800 delegates.

5. Winston Churchill

6. 9 March 1953
Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the ad hoc Assembly created on September 10, 1952, hands to G. Bidault, President of the ECSC Council, a draft treaty instituting a political European Community.

7. Paul Henri Spaak

8. 19 March 1958
The session setting up the European Parliamentary Assembly is held in Strasbourg, France. Mr. Robert Schuman is elected President of the Assembly. This Assembly is to substitute the ECSC one.
13 May 1958
The deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly sit for the first time according to political groups rather than nationality.

9. Robert Schuman

10. 15 December 1964
The Council instructs the Commission to submit proposals on the financing and to submit proposals on the conditions for implementing the transfer to Community budget of levies on agricultural products.

11. 31 March 1966
The Commission lays before the Council its proposal concerning the financing of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), independent revenue for the Community and wider powers for the European Parliament.

12. 21 March 1972
Franco Maria Malfatti, the President of the Commission, resigns and is replaced by Vice-President Sicco Mansholt. The Council adopts a resolution based on a general conspectus by the Commission of the conditions for achieving the first stage of economic and monetary union. 

13. Franco Maria Malfatti