This archive video stockshot shows the main steps of the European construction and illustrates by some examples the major European policies.

Brussels

Paris

KOHL, Helmut (DE)

Schengen

Greece

Berlin

SCHUMAN, Robert (CD, FR)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

MODROW, Hans (GUE/NGL, DE)

Memoclip: History of the Construction of Europe

Title: Memoclip: History of the Construction of Europe

Images of aereal bombs and destroyed cities (12 shots)

Marshall plan: unloading of the American aid (5 shots)

Declaration of Robert Schuman, on 9 May 1950, which proposes the creation of a large market for coal and steel, and signature of the ECSC Treaty in Paris on 18 April 1951 (6 shots)

Steel-works and coal mine in the 1950s (12 shots)

Suppression of the customs duties as of 1 July 1968: customs post, setting fire to a customs barrier by the European federalists (11 shots)

Establishment of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and first reforms in 1973 (Mansholt plan): various plans of the work of the farmers at that time (9 shots)

Signature of the first enlargement by the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland, in Brussels, 21/01/1972 (2 shots)

Chart of Europe showing enlargements from 1981 to 1986

Fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, Helmut Kohl, German Federal Chancellor, and Hans Modrow, Chairman of the Council of Minsters of the German Democratic Republic, at the door of Brandebourg (4 shots)

Chart showing Europe in 1995 (Europe at 15)

Space Policy: launching of the Ariane rocket, satellites, cosmonauts (9 shots)

Research and Innovation: manufacture of microchips in one laboratory, robots, research in the field of biology (6 shots)

Regional Policy: construction of a road in Greece (7 shots)

Single currency: launching of the euro, manufacture of the coins (6 shots)

Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP): mission of police force in Bosnia, soldiers (12 shots)

Schengen Agreement on the free movement of people: Schengen panel, monitoring at the external borders of Europe (4 shots)

Emergency aid in Africa: refugee camps, distribution of the assistance food (5 shots)

Education: classify language, students at the university (9 shots)