SIX DECADES FROM THE HAGUE CONGRESS: GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND INADEqUATE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, YUGOSLAV CONTRIBUTION

Milikić Ratomir (Naučni saradnik, Institut za savremenu istoriju u Beogradu), rasamilikic@gmail.com

This work aims, sixty three years afterthe Hague Congress which was the foundation for Europe as we know it today, to explain how the ideas of European unity were channeled, and to explain Yugoslav role in it. Yugoslav representatives, the émigrés, took a very active participation and tried to focus the other delegates’ attention towards the difficult position of the peoples’ behind the Iron curtain. Article also deals with the workings of the Hague Convention itself, Ideas that were presented, and with the results that stemmed from its workings, especially the Council of Europe.

Keywords: The Hague Congress, Yugoslav emigration, Europe, federalism, Cold war, The Council of Europe