Adenauer, Schumann and de Gasperi during a conference of the Council of Europe

German chancellor and foreign minister Konrad Adenauer (l) talks to French foreign minister Robert Schuman (m) and to Italian foreign minister Alcide de Gasperi (r) during a conference of the Council of Europe on the 10th of December in 1951 in Strasbourg. The Federal Republic of Germany, member of the Council of Europe since 1950, received an equal position in the supreme executive body of the Council of Europe.