Paul-Henri Charles Spaak was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman. Along with Robert Schuman, Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer he was a leader in the formation of the institutions that evolved into the European Union.
Spaak in 1957
Spaak (left) with Paul Van Zeeland in 1937
Spaak photographed receiving the Charlemagne Prize in 1957
Paul-Henri Spaak conferred the Charlemagne Prize in 1957.
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. In 2021, Schuman was declared venerable by Pope Francis in recognition of his acting on Christian principles.
Robert Schuman, circa 1949.
Schuman's birthplace in Clausen, a suburb of Luxembourg City
Portrait of Robert Schuman, député from Moselle (1929)
On 19 March 1958, the first meeting of the European Parliamentary Assembly was held in Strasbourg under the Presidency of Robert Schuman.
