The Council of Europe conventions

Abstract

HISTORIANS and upholders of the European ideal usually lay much stress on the great and luminous milestones of European unity - Churchill's 'Europe, Unite' speech, Monnet's proposal for the formation of the Coal and Steel Community, the signing of the Rome Treaty, and so on. These events are commemorated every year - and rightly so. However we should not ignore the small and unobtrusive measures which have helped remove all those little barriers to European unification. On 18th. April the Prime Minister laid on the table copies of two treaties which the Maltese Government had signed in September 1967 and which are highly significant in this regard. The first one is the European Agreement on Regulations Governing the Movement of Persons between member states of the Council of Europe and the second one is the European Convention on the equivalence of Periods of University Study.