European Convention may refer to:
- The European Convention (child abduction)
- The European Convention on Human Rights, a human rights treaty.
- The European Convention (1999-2000) which drafted the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
- The Convention on the Future of Europe which drafted the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
- In general usage, a new "European Convention" can be called to draft a new EU treaty, uniquely composed of national EU governments, national MPs, MEPs and the European Commission.
Famous quotes containing the words european and/or convention:
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)
“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)