1949 Institution

Council of Europe

Name: Council of Europe
Start: 1949

Ten states found in London the first European political organisation, matrix of the Convention on Human Rights.

What leads to what

Declared chains of causation — debatable, like any reading of history.

Downstream

leads to Schuman Declaration 1950 Une assemblée sans pouvoir montre qu’il faut lier des intérêts, pas des intentions.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1949 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Bonn Basic Law Germany
1 year later Schuman Declaration
3 years later Seat of the High Authority Luxembourg
7 years later Budapest uprising Hungary
8 years later Treaties of Rome
8 years earlier Occupation and destruction Belarus
10 years earlier Invasion and occupation Poland
10 years earlier Winter War Finland

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Cold War 1947 – 1991 A continent cut in two, from Yalta to 1991.

Countries involved

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What was written of it

Before 1914, the earth belonged to all. Everyone went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits and no authorisations.

Stefan Zweig 1942

The World of Yesterday. Memoirs of a European

Translated by the site, not by the author.