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The European Parliamentary Assembly opened its ordinary session for 1959 on January 7. Mr. Robert Schuman, former French premier and initiator of die European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), was re-elected President by acclamation. The ensuing debates covered a wide field, including the opening up of markets, the problem of competition, a European program for energy resources, industrial safeguards, hygiene and the protection of health, social policy, shortening of the working week in the coal and steel industries of the Community, transport problems, a long-term economic policy, agricultural problems, and the form of association for overseas territories and dependencies.
2 Council of Europe News, 02 1959 (9th Year, No. 2), p. 15Google Scholar. For a summary of the joint meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe held later in the month, see this issue, p. 476–477.
3 Bulletin from the European Community, 01–02 1959 (No. 34), p. 1–3Google Scholar.
4 Council of Europe News, May 1959, Special Issue, p. 22–23.
5 The Times (London), 04 16, 1959Google Scholar. For a further discussion of the coal crisis, see below.
6 Bulletin from the European Community, 01–02 1959 (No. 34), p. p5Google Scholar.
7 Ibid., March-April 1959 (No. 35), p. 1–2.
8 ibid., p. 3.
9 Ibid., p. 4–3.
10 Ibid., p. 7.
11 The Times (London), 05 15, 1959Google Scholar.
12 Bulletin from the European Community, 01–02 1959 (No. 34), p. 4Google Scholar.
13 Ibid., March–April 1959 (No. 35), p. 10–11.
14 Ibid., p. 11–13.
15 Ibid., p. 14.
16 The New York Times, March 19, 1959.
17 Bulletin from the European Community, 01–02 1959 (No. 34), p. 5Google Scholar.
18 Council of Europe News, 03 1959 (9th Year, No. 3), p. 4Google Scholar.
19 The Times (London), 05 6, 1959Google Scholar.
20 Bulletin from the European Community, 01–02 1959 (No. 34), p. 7Google Scholar.
21 Ibid., March–April 1959 (No. 35), p. 7.
22 Ibid., p. 9.
23 The New York Times, April 14, 1959.