Meeting between Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, and Robert Schuman in 1960.

On 7 May 1965, on the 15th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, underlines the historic significance of the French Foreign Minister’s proposal, and emphasises the duty and the need to pursue his work.

On 9 May 1980, on the 30th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, emphasises the historic importance of the proposal by the French Foreign Minister and reiterates the obligation and need to pursue his work.

Notes by Pierre Werner, former Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister, in preparation for a study session at the Katholische Akademie in Trier on Robert Schuman, statesman and pioneer of European unification.

On 17 September 1960, the French President Charles de Gaulle sets out his country’s European policy during talks at the Élysée Palace with Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister.

On 17 September 1960, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, is received by General de Gaulle.

On 18 September 1960, the Luxembourg Government publishes a communiqué on the talks held the previous day at the Élysée Palace between Ministers from France and Luxembourg regarding European political cooperation.

On 19 June 1961, Albert Borschette, Luxembourg representative to the European Communities, sends ,a letter to Eugène Schaus, Foreign Minister, in which he expresses his disappointment at the substance of Paul-Henri Spaak’s memorandum on European political cooperation.

On 18 July 1961, at a meeting in Bad Godesberg, a suburb of Bonn, the Heads of State or Government of the Six reiterate their determination to continue their efforts to achieve political union in Europe.

On 19 October and 2 November 1961, in accordance with the task conferred upon it by the Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Six, in Bonn, on 18 July 1961, the Fouchet Committee submits a first Draft Treaty on European Political Union (Fouchet Plan I).

On 8 November 1961, Albert Borschette, Luxembourg Permanent Representative to the European Communities, sends his Foreign Minister a letter in which he considers the positions taken by Italy, Belgium and the Federal Republic of Germany regarding the French draft of the Treaty on European Political Union (Fouchet Plan II).

On 22 December 1961, the Luxembourg daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort focuses on the progress of the intergovernmental negotiations devoted to a consideration of the Fouchet Plan.

On 18 January 1962, the Fouchet Committee submits the second version of the Draft Treaty on European Political Union (Fouchet Plan II).

On 12 February 1962, Albert Borschette, Luxembourg’s Permanent Representative to the European Communities, writes a letter to Eugène Schaus, Luxembourg Foreign Minister, setting out the institutional grounds which led France, on 18 January 1962, to propose a new project to its European partners (Fouchet Plan II) for a Union of European States which is less ambitious than the previous plans.

On 16 February 1962, Pierre Pescatore, Political Director in the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry, drafts a note on the talks between General de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Baden-Baden concerning European political cooperation.

During a press conference held on 27 April 1962, the Luxembourg Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eugène Schaus, hopes that negotiations on a Political Europe will be resumed.

On 4 May 1964, during his official visit to Luxembourg, German Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (on the right) meets Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (on the left).

On 24 February 1965, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, gives an address to the Chamber of Deputies in which he sets out the position of the Luxembourg Government on the main European and international issues.

Paul-Henri Spaak (on the left), Belgian Foreign Minister, and Pierre Werner (on the right), Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, at the meeting of the European Economic Community (EEC) held on 2 March 1965 in Brussels.

On 30 September 1965, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, sets out Luxembourg’s position within the European Community to the Belgian Chamber of Commerce in New York.

On 15 February 1966, the Luxemburg Embassy in Brussels sends a note to the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Pierre Werner, in which it informs him of the position of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, on the possibility of a revival in political cooperation between the Six.

On 23 February 1966, the Luxemburg Ambassador to Brussels sends a note to the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Pierre Werner, in which he informs him of the position of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, on the possibility of a revival in political consultations between the Six, in the presence of the United Kingdom.

On 5 June 1966, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, gives a lecture at the American and Common Market Club in Brussels in which he outlines various aspects of the recent development of European integration.

On 28 June 1966, in his capacity as President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, outlines to the European Parliament the activities undertaken by the Council during this term of office.

On 23 July 1966, Pierre Pescatore, General Secretary of the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry, outlines the ideas exchanged between Pierre Harmel, Belgian Foreign Minister, and his Dutch and Luxembourg counterparts, Joseph Luns and Pierre Werner, on the subject of the potential accession of the United Kingdom to the European Economic Community (EEC).

On 18 November 1966, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, gives an address to the Chamber of Deputies in which he sets out the Luxembourg Government’s position on the main European and international issues.

On 8 March 1967, George Brown, British Foreign Secretary, Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister, and Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (from left to right), meet in Luxembourg.

On 29 and 30 May 1967, the European Heads of State meet in Rome to mark the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).

On the eve of the NATO Ministerial Meeting on 13 and 14 June 1967 in Luxembourg, German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt (on the left) meets Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (on the right), on 12 June.

At the Benelux Summit in 1968, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands receives the delegations of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In the first row (from left to right): Gaston Eyskens, Belgian Prime Minister, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, and Piet de Jong, Netherlands Prime Minister.

In October and November 1969, La Gazette de Lausanne publishes a special report on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and interviews Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Finance Minister, on the subject of the country as an international financial centre.