French prime minister Aristide Briand launched 5 September 1929 during the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva a sensational idea of a European federal union. All 26 European delegates afterwards declared support for Briand’s proposal. This remarkable initiative at such a crucial moment in European history is hardly known outside an inner circle […]
Wim de Wagt
Dr Wim de Wagt is an independent art historian, writer and journalist. He has published numerous books and articles on art, architecture, cultural history, politics and Jewish history. In 2015 he wrote Wij Europeanen (We Europeans), about the forgotten history of Europe in the interwar period.