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"If we can't learn from history, we'll have to do history all over."

Just one soundbite from these Max Kohnstamm reflections on the Europe, in this 2002 interview. Max Kohnstamm is considered one of the EU's last remaining Founding Fathers, who passed away on Wednesday. He will be buried on Tuesday.

Former diplomat and historian Max Kohnstamm has died in Amsterdam aged 96. A key public figure, he was one of Holland's main proponents of European cooperation, according to Radio Netherlands World Service.

After reading history at the University of Amsterdam, in 1938 he spent a year in the United States studying President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, aimed at combating the Great Depression.

After World War II, part of which he spent in German detention camps in the Netherlands, he served as Queen Wilhelmina's private secretary for a number of years. Between 1952 and 1956 he was Secretary of the High Authority of General of the European Coal and Steel Community, the precursor of the European ... Distributed by Tubemogul.