Having eased some of Adenauer’s worries at Rambouillet, de Gaulle presented him with a nine-point memorandum for the organization of Europe. It proposed regular meetings of European governments, prepared by joint commissions of experts from each country. In the longer term, it envisaged a consultative parliament of representatives from each national assembly. This was de Gaulle’s most ambitious attempt to circumvent the supranational institutions at Brussels by building a ‘political’ Europe.
