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European Navigator from the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance de l'Europe is a brilliant site offering a huge multimedia archive about several European historical events and European institutions.

Österreich und die Europäische Integration

Council of Europe Audio Archives of key-personalities embracing 50+ audio clips of speeches covering half a century 

Council of Europe: The Saar Question  A collection of documents covering discussions on this disputed territory (claimed by both France and Germany) over the period 1949-1957 

BBC Milestones of the EU  Timeline plus collection of video fragment 

European Councils 1974-1989 in French And 1990-1999   

European Councils in all languages since 1985   

Foreign Relations of the United States  

G8 Information Center (University of Toronto)  for a good starting point. 

Instituut Nationale e l’Audio-visuel, 50 l’ans de construction européenne  has eleven video extracts 

Leiden University’s Schuman Plan Collection

LeMo Archiv A large and varied sound archive 

NATO on-line Library  

NATO Basic Documents  

NATO Summits and Ministerial Communiqués from 1945 to the present 

The Single Currency and the European Parliament (European Parliament) covers debates and resolutions from 1989 onwards 

Truman Library Marshall Plan Study Collection  

Western European Union Key texts from 1984 onwards 

1930-1944

Briand Plan  (May 1930) Often praised as a first step to European integration, but curiously muted when you look at the text (Extract)

 

 

 Atlantic Conference (August 1941)
A selection of full-text documents put on-line by the Avalon Porject. The Charter outlines the principles for the four freedoms.

Official Photo and photo of the prayer service on-board the ship where the meeting was held.

Atlantic Charter  (1941) Provided the foundation of US-UK postwar collaboration, part of which found itself eventually into the arrangements for the European Recovery Program (Full Text)

Ventotene Memorandum Towards a Freer and United Europe (1941) Written in prison, provides an early indication of the great federalist Altiero Spinelli’s views of Europe. (Full Text… English translation here)

 Anglo-American Mutual Aid Agreement
(February 1942) Establishes the basis of defence collaboration between the two countries, Note Article Seven which commits both countries to non-discriminatory commerce, and which will be used by the US to attack UK cartels. (Full Text)

 US President Roosevelt (March 1942, extract) announcing the agreement

 The Master Lend-Lease Agreement (February 1942)

Jean Monnet' reflections (August 1943) written whilst with the Free French government in Algiers, on the future of postwar Europe and on the need for a new organisation for heavy industry

Benelux Monetary Agreement (October 1943) signed by the governments-in-exile of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, it provided for mutual trading credits after the War.

 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agreement (November 1943) makes provision for emergency relief supplies to liberated Europe, and for the repatriation of displaced persons, under UN auspices.  It will be Europe’s main source of supplies for two years following the end of the War. (Full text)

 Bretton Woods Agreement (July 1944) Created the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund. It also established the rules governing exchange-rate management that prevailed until the system came apart in 1971/73

 Conference in session and signature.

 Morgenthau Plan (August 1944) Extract

 Benelux Customes Union Agreement (September 1944) committing the countries to forming a customs union after the War. Realising that goal proved a little more difficult. 

 

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Quotes & Sayings

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
- H J Browne

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
- Jim Rohn

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
- F Bacon

A Real job is a job you hate.

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.
- Sarah Beeny

If you want to be comfortable then take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, just take off your coat.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Start your career with the hard jobs.The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.

My job is a job to make decisions. I’m a decision. if the job description were, what do you do. it’s decision maker.
- George Bushism

Never turn down a job because you think it’s too small; you don’t know where it can lead.
- Julia M

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

The problem with the designated driver program, it’s not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
- Jeff Foxworthy

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.
- D McGoorty

If your’re not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he’ll be ready to take your job.
- B Robinson

We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.
- Anonymous

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing. the result.
- Vince Lombardi

My son is now an “entrepreneur.” That’s what you are called when you don’t have a job.
- Ted Turner

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
- F Astaire

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.
- M S Forbes

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
- Adolf Hitler

We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution.
- Abe Lincoln

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution.
- Ronald Reagan

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
- Richard Nixon

Success is the sole earthly judge of right or wrong.
- Adolf Hitler

I detest war; it ruins conversation
- Bernard Fontenelle

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mahtma Gandhi

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- George Orwell

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- George Orwell

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
- George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- George Orwell

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- George Orwell

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon

The believer is happy, the doubter wise.
- Greek Proverb

Those who fail to fail to learn history, are doomed to repeat it.
- Wilston Churchill

Education, Education, Education(well known mantra)
- Tony Blair

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
- Lord Kelvin

Honey, I forgot to duck
- President Reagan to his wife, Nancy after being shot

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- George Orwell

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F Kennedy

If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God’s sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.
- Thomas Jefferson to N. G. DufiefÂ

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- George Orwell

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatama Gandhi

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln

You are remembered for the rules you break.
- Douglas MacArthur

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

Reading is the basics for all learning.
- George W. Bush

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don’t always agree with them.
- George Bush

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- President Gerald Ford

I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
- Hillary Clinton

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- G.B. Shaw

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
- Bill Clinton

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln

We’re concerned about AIDS inside our White House-make no mistake about it.
- George W. Bush

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.Â
-Clarence Darrow

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.Â
-Maureen Murphy

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.Â
-Winston Churchill

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
- Martin L. Gross

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles de Gaulle

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke,

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Isaac Newton

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Tse Tung

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse Tung

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.
- Nikita

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
- Maureen Murphy

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.
- Hermione Gingold

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
- Confucius

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
- Clare Boothe Luce

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson

During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.
- Anonymous

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
- George Will

Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

A politician will stand for what he thinks people will fall for.
- Anonymous

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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