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Article: An Assembly for Europe: The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, 1948-1989.(Parliamentary Book Shelf)(Book review)
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- Canadian Parliamentary Review
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- September 22, 2007
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An Assembly for Europe: The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, 1948-1989, by Bruno Hailer, Council of Europe Publishing, 2006.
This book by a former Secretary General tells the story of the origins and growth of the first pan-European assembly of parliamentarians. It is a book for popular consumption, a book for the uninitiated. As a Council of Europe publication, it takes an over(t)ly rosy view of the institution's development and present status. Though billed as a book about the assembly, it actually focuses a lot on the Council of Europe as a whole as well as events in Europe more generally. The author also cannot forebear from numerous references to ...