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    Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (French: [pɔl ɑ̃ʁi ʃaʁl spak]; 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman...
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    (EU). It consists of a number of buildings, primarily the oldest, the Paul-Henri Spaak building, which houses the debating chamber and the President's offices...
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  • The Paul-Henri Spaak Foundation or Fondation Paul-Henri Spaak located in Brussels (Belgium) was founded in 1973, one year after the death Paul-Henri Spaak...
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    Spaak. Her uncle, politician Paul-Henri Spaak, was the Prime Minister of Belgium from 1947 to 1949. Her paternal grandmother was Marie Janson Spaak,...
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    Spaak Committee in 1956. The Intergovernmental Committee, headed by Paul-Henri Spaak, presented its definitive report on 21 April 1956 to the six governments...
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  • Fernand Paul Jules Spaak (8 August 1923 – 18 July 1981) was a Belgian lawyer and diplomat. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak and Marguerite Malevez, he was born...
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    Coudenhove-Kalergi, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet and Paul-Henri Spaak as the 5 founding fathers of the EU. Other sources have emphasized...
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    (1871–1936), Belgian lawyer and playwright Marie Spaak (born Janson, 1873–1960), Belgian politician Paul-Henri Spaak (1899–1972), Belgian politician, statesman...
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    Janson, daughter of Paul Janson. The couple had four children, of whom Paul-Henri Spaak, later Belgian Prime Minister like his uncle Paul-Emile Janson, was...
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    poet Paul Spaak, the brother of the politician Paul-Henri Spaak, and the father of the actresses Catherine Spaak and Agnès Spaak. Charles Spaak was born...
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    Ministry, in 1959, and within two years had become an attaché under Paul-Henri Spaak, then Minister of Foreign Affairs. He remained in Belgian government...
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    Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, called the meeting to order. Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium was elected the first president of the General Assembly...
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    who had lost the election for President of the General Assembly to Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is appointed...
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  • European Union, including Salvador de Madariaga, Winston Churchill, Paul-Henri Spaak and Alcide De Gasperi, to promote "a spirit of solidarity and mutual...
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    (Luxembourg), Antoine Pinay (France), Walter Hallstein (Germany), and Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium). Joseph Bech was chairman of the meeting. The Foreign Ministers...
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  • 1978 and attended the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium (1978–1979 Paul-Henri Spaak promotion). He obtained a doctorate at the European University Institute...
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    peaceful use of atomic energy. The steering committee was composed of Paul-Henri Spaak, the six heads of delegation from the ECSC member states and a representative...
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    Josef Hromádka, Norman Thomas, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Abraham Vereide, Paul-Henri Spaak and Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. Austrian philanthropist Hermann...
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    Paul-Henri Spaak, an international diplomat and former prime minister of Belgium, was selected as the second secretary general. Unlike Ismay, Spaak had...
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  • elected to the Chamber of Representatives in 1921 and the mother of Paul-Henri Spaak, Janson's nephew and the man who directly succeeded him as Prime Minister...
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    reasons, but because he felt it needed a fresh hand and a fresh brain." Paul-Henri Spaak was immediately chosen as his successor, but Ismay remained in office...
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    Churchill, Harold Macmillan, Bertrand Russell, François Mitterrand, Paul-Henri Spaak, Albert Coppé and Altiero Spinelli took an active role in the congress...
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  • The Spaak method of negotiation is named after Paul-Henri Spaak, a Belgian politician, who applied this method at the Intergovernmental Conference on...
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    Sera (in Italian). 1 September 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2021. Ginsborg, Paul (2003). A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943–1988...
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    Belgian parliament, mother of Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. Jean Francis Mes belges années 1974 "Paul Janson ne demeura que quatre ans dans la cité...
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  • (1945–1946) Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime minister (1946) Achille Van Acker, Prime minister (1946) Camille Huysmans, Prime minister (1946–1947) Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime...
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    spirit of consultation envisioned by the then-Secretary General of NATO Paul-Henri Spaak. De Staercke borrowed the quote when he recalled his visit to the Palace...
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    on 30 September 2014. He was the first former prime minister since Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium in 1961 to become Secretary General of NATO. He became a...
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    German Vice-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, a European Union pioneer and a Karlspreis winner like Karamanlis,...
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    and the Communist Party made major gains. Following the elections, Paul-Henri Spaak formed a Socialist minority government supported by the Communists...
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