@pablopereza
Team Leader - Audiovisual, Graphic Design and Web of the EUIPO. In Spain, working for the EU. Lot of EU History here. Probably, some EU Memes. And, for sure, some of the audiovisual work we do at the EUIPO.
I am really happy that this video saw the light (finally). So here It is - and a bit about the 'thinking' behind It
Don Quijote, Sancho, and the EUIPO as its home
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"Now we will also impose tariffs. It is a stupid process. But we have to do it. We will now impose tariffs on Harley Davidson, on blue jeans, Levis, on Bourbon.
We can also do stupid.
We also have to be this stupid"
Juncker responding to Trump's trade tariffs to the EU (in 2018)
The European Commission has been doing this 'medal count' since Mexico 1968.
Footage from the EC Audiovisual Library
This is great reaction 👇
I feel you, sis
Sometimes diplomacy isn’t about what you say. It’s about how long you breathe before saying nothing.
Watch Kaja Kallas listening to Mike Waltz US representative to the UN at Munich Security Conference.
What if Europeans learned about Europe together....before governing it?
Happy 50 anniversary to the European University Institute.
Here a bit of how It was born as a small tribute www.linkedin.com/posts/pablop...
Norway not joining the EU is definitely up there as a "what if", but I think Brexit vote (2016), EU constitution failure (2005) and especially French parliament voting down the creation of an EU based around a unified EU military (1954) are the top three in my mind.
Oh yes...the European Defence Community is definitely at the top. Totally agree.
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Video: footage of the signing ceremony of the Accession Treaty (22 January 1972) from the European Commission Audiovisual Library.
PS: yes, Jean Monnet and many of the major political figures of the early days of the EU project (Hallstein and Bech included) were present at the signing ceremony.
The biggest “what if” in the history of the EU? On 22 January 1972, Norway signed the Accession Treaty to join the European Economic Community (alongside Denmark, Ireland and the UK)
Unlike the others, Norway never joined.
I wrote a short text about it here:
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Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:
"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."
"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
14 January 1962 | The Common Agricultural Policy is born with the Council adopting the first regulations.
Agricultura became the first area where European integration moved from principle to practice
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"No more fitting tribute to what you are doing than to cite the words of Jean Monnet, the father of European unity: "You are not making a coalition of states; you are uniting peoples"
📹 Audiovisual Library of the European Commission
"This meeting symbolizes America's abiding commitment to a strong and united Europe and to the European Community"
Jimmy Carter during the first visit of a US President to the EU institutions | 6 January 1978, Brussels.
49 years on, his thinking on Europe remains remarkably relevant. Here are 10 quotes that speak directly to the EU of today.
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6 January 1977 | Roy Jenkins 🏴🇬🇧, the first (and only) President of the European Commission from the UK, takes Office.
Voted unanimously by the EU countries.
"Our means are and have been economic. Our end remains, as it was from the beginning, political".
#EUHistory🇪🇺
So, who is Santa in EU terms? I wrote about the evolution of Santa - EU relations here
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In 1996, EU Commissioner Erkki Liikanen received Santa Claus in Brussels.
They met, they did a press point and they discussed the accusations of Santa's monopolistic position, among other topics.
The European Union hasn’t won the FIFA Peace Prize, but it has won the Nobel Peace Prize. With reason. (Some of our members have won the FIFA World Cup.)
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This image was published in 1948. Europe tied down, pressured from both sides, while others pull the strings and wait for collapse.
The context has changed. The dynamics feel somehow familiar.
Gave me a hook to write how to win an info war as the one we are in
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Eisenhower said it was a "historic need"
Kennedy talked about "admiration" to EU project.
Nixon went for "less lecturing Europe and more listenig"
Reagan: "moral success"
Obama: "great achievement of human history"
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The US-EU relations by US Presidents www.linkedin.com/posts/pablop...
"Qui aurait pu penser, il y a encore deux ans, que les douze pays membres se mettraient d’accord sur deux
perspectives aussi ambitieuses que celles que représentent l’Union économique et monétaire d’une part, et l’Union politique d’autre part?"
Jacques Delors 🇪🇺
#EUhistory
1 November 1993 | the Maastricht Treaty enters into force 🇪🇺
It established the EU, the cooperation on foreign and security policy and on justice and home affairs, the economic and monetary union, paved the way for the euro, 'created' the EU citizenship...
#EUHistory #OnThisDay
Lamine Yamal registers and prtects his 304 celebration at EU level.
He owns now 7 EU trade marks. Second to Mbappe in the ranking but over Messi and Ronaldo (6 each)
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Let people actually see the EU being built. Show, not just say. 60 years ago, a small team in Brussels set up a radio and TV studio. And that was their mission.
This video is from the launch.
The European Commission has studios available since 1965 - more www.linkedin.com/posts/pablop...
PS: I LOVE propaganda posters back in those days
Bonus track, cartoons about the European Defence Community back in those days.
And yes, sometimes the EU advances by changing route, not destination.
More about the European Defence Community in this piece I wrote on @ecmemes.bsky.social site www.dg-meme.eu/meme/2023/05...
Jean Monnet resigned, with this letter, from the High Authority (predecesor of the European Commission) and looked ahead.
In his farewell speech he left a line for the ages: "What we started will continue: the United States of Europe"
The dream didn't die, it changed path
