{"id":1516,"date":"2014-02-04T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/?page_id=1516"},"modified":"2014-11-14T13:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:18:06","slug":"looking_back","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/looking_back\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span>The beginnings of the Council of Europe<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>H\u00f4tel de Ville, Strasbourg<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hotel-de-Ville.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-787 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Hotel de Ville, Strasbourg\" alt=\"Hotel de Ville, Strasbourg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hotel-de-Ville.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hotel-de-Ville.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hotel-de-Ville-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hotel-de-Ville-560x417.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hotel-de-Ville-260x193.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hotel-de-Ville-160x119.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>After its foundation in 1949, the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/\" title=\"Council of Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong> didn&#8217;t have its own building yet. Therefore, the first few plenary sessions of the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/structure\/committee-of-ministers\/\" title=\"Committee of Ministers\">Committee of Ministers<\/a><\/em><\/strong> took place in Strassburg&#8217;s H\u00f4tel de Ville (town hall).<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><b>Maison de l&#8217;Europe<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Maison-de-lEurope.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-794 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Maison de l'Europe\" alt=\"Maison de l'Europe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Maison-de-lEurope.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Maison-de-lEurope.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Maison-de-lEurope-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Maison-de-lEurope-560x395.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Maison-de-lEurope-260x183.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Maison-de-lEurope-160x113.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>In order to provide the organisation, who was designed to help Europe establish lasting peace, with its own place, construction on the &#8220;Maison de l&#8217;Europe&#8221; (Europe House) started soon, and the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/\" title=\"Council of Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was able to move into it&#8217;s first proper building in 1950.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><b>Palais de l&#8217;Europe<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-795 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Palais de l'Europe\" alt=\"Palais de l'Europe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg.jpg 1597w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg-560x342.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg-260x159.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Council_of_Europe_Strasbourg-160x97.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>When this first building became too small for the growing <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/council-of-europe\/\" title=\"Council of Europe\">Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, it was replaced in 1977 by today&#8217;s &#8220;Palais de l&#8217;Europe&#8221;, a new construction on the same spot.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>On the occasion of the inauguration of this building, a few <strong>special stamps<\/strong> were issued:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-769\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"Sondermarken\" alt=\"Sondermarken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps.jpg\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps-560x329.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps-260x152.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Stamps-160x94.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 80%; text-align: left;\"><br \/>\n_<br \/>\nPhotos \u00a9 CoE, Movie \u00a9 ina.fr, Stamps: Klaus Niederau <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginnings of the Council of Europe H\u00f4tel de Ville, Strasbourg After its foundation in 1949, the Council of Europe didn&#8217;t have its own building yet. Therefore, the first few plenary sessions of the Committee of Ministers took place in Strassburg&#8217;s H\u00f4tel de Ville (town hall). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Maison de l&#8217;Europe In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1417,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}