In the economic field, too, we have for the past decade been determinedly and assiduously tracking a different sort of big five, representing the key elements we need to nurture to enable our economy to achieve higher and rising levels of sustainable growth in output and in employment and hence in living standards for all the people of South Africa.
Winston Churchill had given his famous speech in Zurich on ‘a kind of United States of Europe', already in September 1946. As a first step, he called the creation of a Council of Europe. This speech launched many initiatives. One of them was a Congress of Europe in The Hague in May 1948.