Sonderband 2. International Council on Archives. Dritte Europäische Archivkonferenz, Wien 11. bis 15. Mai 1993. Tagungsprotokolle (1996)
4. Session / Séance. Strategies for Links with Historical Research / Stratégies de Communication envers la Recherche historique - Palayret Jean-Marie: Towards a New History of Europe (integration period) / Pour une nouvelle Histoire européenne. La période de l’intégration) (english 393 - français 413)
4. Session/Séance: Palayret, Towards a new History of Europe Sources on European Cooperation“ edited by the Archives of the Italien Foreign Ministry is a model in this respect. Conclusions On the whole, archival coordination in Europe, though steadily improving, is far from satisfactory. Exchange of experiences at European level is recommended. In a democratially stmctured Europe, the barriers obstructing historiography and archi- vistics are daily losing more and more of their reasons for existing. The cultural, historical and democratic values that imbue the archival heritage of Community countries - and of those about to join or contemplating association with it - cannot be given genuine expression except through easier utilization of this heritage. The way to this is more generous, better coordinated opening of archives. The associations of archivists have demonstrated that they wish for exchanges and for procedure, and the announced creation of a European section within the CIA might be the prime mover here. As for the user, whether national or foreign, he seeks consistency. He cannot understand why, when it comes to the weeding of archives or their release, he is faced with a diversity that has to do with frontiers to which he is increasingly indifferent. No substantial progress in the history of European integration can be made unless the following three preconditions are met:- free access to a growing number of unpublished sources;- the possibility of expanding the exchange of information;- the conviction that the study of European integration in its multiple facets cannot be pursued in any parochial spirit. It is at this price that it may become the tool through which it will be possible to trace the evolution leading towards a genuine European identity. 412
