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:
“What is the first thing that savage tribes accept from Europeans nowadays? Brandy and Christianity, the European narcotics.—And what is it that most rapidly leads to their destruction?—The European narcotics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius—a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)