The die has been cast and we are now assessing the consequences of how the European public voted. In terms of communication, the assessment will be mixed, but that must not cause us to ignore the best efforts of some media, like Euronews, with the support of the European institutions. One of its eight-minute reports before the European elections looked back on the beginnings of European parliamentary institutions in Strasbourg, speaking to some of those who were there. Who said this: “In this town, so often damaged by war, I am delighted to see the birth of this first assembly that will one day, perhaps, become the parliament of Europe”? It was Winston Churchill, addressing the people of Strasbourg, in French, in the Place Kléber on Friday 12 August 1949. As a young journalist with the “Nouvel Alsacien”, Paul Collowald was struck by this happy premonition, and remembered it. In fact, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, founded in 1949, remained a consultative body and the Common Assembly, brought about by the Schuman Declaration, and officially became the European Parliament in 1962. (P.C./transl.rt)