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José María Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado is so far the only Spaniard from the European People's Party (EPP) to serve as President of the European Parliament. He embodied a particular tradition within Spanish political life: Christian democracy. Son of the historical leader of the Spanish Right during the Second Spanish Republic, Gil-Robles lived with his family in exile in Portugal during the Spanish Civil War. He came back to Spain along with his monarchist father to oppose the dictatorship, and became ...

From his childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto to his tragic death in a road accident while working at the European Parliament in 2008, Bronisław Geremek faced many personal, professional and political challenges during a period of constant turbulence. A world-renowned historian, he was interested in the poor, the excluded and the marginalised during the Middle Ages, mainly working as a researcher at the Sorbonne and Warsaw University. The Soviet army’s invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 marked the start ...

L'attività di giornalista e attivista di Louise Weiss ha caratterizzato tutto il suo impegno pubblico. Weiss appartiene al novero dei promotori dell'idea di Europa le cui azioni affondano le radici nella Prima guerra mondiale e, come molti di loro, è una donna di frontiera, originaria della zona orientale della Francia annessa alla Germania nel 1871. Louise Weiss ha dedicato la vita a diverse battaglie che hanno trovato forza le une nelle altre: la lotta per i diritti delle donne, quella per l'Europa ...

When Walter Hallstein became the first President of the European Economic Community Commission, in 1958, a long career already lay behind him: legal scholar, university professor, research manager, diplomat and German government representative at the conferences drafting the founding treaties of the European Coal and Steel Community and then the European Economic Community. The federalist ideas he developed and the emphasis he placed on supranational institutions remain among his most important legacies ...

Nato in una famiglia di commercianti di cognac, Jean Monnet inizia sin da giovane a girare il mondo, prima di impegnarsi fermamente a favore della cooperazione franco-britannica durante la Prima guerra mondiale. In seguito lavora per la Società delle Nazioni, prima di ritornare all'azienda di famiglia e successivamente intraprendere imprese commerciali negli Stati Uniti e in Cina. Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale si reca a Londra per promuovere la cooperazione franco-britannica e successivamente ...

Helmut Kohl died on 16 June 2017 at the age of 87. The father of German reunification and a strong supporter of European integration, he leaves a long-lasting legacy.