At the invitation of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, gives a lecture on 21 November 1960 in Strasbourg entitled The contribution of European finance and currencies to economic integration and continental solidarity, in which he sets out the possible ways in which currency and finance might stimulate a movement towards economic integration, and the laws that should govern such a process.

Treffen zwischen Pierre Werner, luxemburgischer Staatsminister und Regierungspräsident, und Robert Schuman im Jahr 1960.

Pierre Werner, luxemburgischer Gouverneur des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF), anlässlich der Jahrestagung der IWF-Gouverneure im Jahr 1961 in Wien.

In 1962, Pierre Werner (on the left), Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, and Robert B. Anderson (on the right), Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, take part in the Annual Meeting of the IMF Governors.

Pierre Werner, luxemburgischer Gouverneur des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF), anlässlich der Jahrestagung der IWF-Gouverneure vom 17. bis 21. September 1962 in Washington.

Am 27. November 1962 erläutert Pierre Werner, luxemburgischer Staatsminister, Regierungspräsident und Finanzminister, in Brüssel den Mitgliedern der Association des amitiés belgo-luxembourgeoises seine Gedanken zur Finanzintegration Europas.

On 29 January 1963, Pierre Werner (on the right), Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, and Eugène Schaus (on the left), Luxembourg Foreign Minister, sign the protocol revising the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU) Convention.

Pierre Werner, Gouverneur des Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF) für Luxemburg, anlässlich der Jahrestagung der IWF-Gouverneure vom 30. September bis 4. Oktober 1963 in Washington.

Im November 1963 besucht Pierre Werner, luxemburgischer Staatsminister, Regierungspräsident und Finanzminister (links), die Kammern des Parlaments in London und trifft auf Sir Herbert Butcher, Vorsitzender der britischen Gruppe in der Interparlamentarischen Union (links), und G.W. Aldington, britischer Botschafter in Luxemburg (Mitte).

During an official visit to London in November 1963, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, meets Reginald Maudling, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.

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 4 May 1964, during his official visit to Luxembourg, German Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard meets Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government.

Pierre Werner (links), luxemburgischer Staatsminister, Regierungspräsident und Finanzminister, mit Johan Witteveen (rechts), niederländischer Finanzminister, im Jahr 1964.

Pierre Werner, luxemburgischer Staats- und Schatzminister, und Rolf Dahlgrün, deutscher Bundesfinanzminister, anlässlich der Tagung der Finanzminister der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft am 25. Januar 1965 in Antwerpen.

Am 24. Februar 1965 hält Pierre Werner, luxemburgischer Staatsminister und Außenminister, vor der Abgeordnetenkammer eine Rede, in der er die Haltung der luxemburgischen Regierung zu den wichtigsten europäischen und internationalen Fragen darlegt.

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 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 12 September 1966, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, and Michel Debré, French Minister for the Economy and Finance, hold a joint press conference with Jacques Navadic, a journalist for RTL Luxembourg.

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.

Anlässlich der Ministertagung der NATO am 13. und 14. Juni 1967 in Luxemburg trifft der deutsche Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt (links) am 12. Juni auf den luxemburgischen Staatsminister und Regierungspräsidenten Pierre Werner (rechts).

As the Robert Schuman Prize is awarded at the University of Bonn on 29 June 1967, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (left), and Joseph Bech, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State from 1926 to 1937 and from 1953 to 1958 (centre), meet the German Federal Chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (right).

On 25 September 1967, Pierre Werner, Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, takes part in the Annual Meeting of the IMF in Rio de Janeiro.

On 26 January 1968, Pierre Werner, Minister of State and President of the Luxembourg Government, gives an address in Saarbrücken at the CDU economic congress entitled ‘The outlook for European financial and monetary policy’. In this address, he sets out a ‘five-point action plan’ for European monetary integration based on the creation of a European unit of account, fixed exchange rates between European currencies, consultation, and internal and external solidarity between the Member States of the European Communities. He also raises the idea of a monetary cooperation fund.

Am 28. Januar 1968 kommentiert die Tageszeitung L’Agence économique et financière die Studie mit dem Titel „Perspektiven der europäischen Finanz- und Währungspolitik“ des luxemburgischen Staatsministers und Regierungspräsidenten Pierre Werner.

Am 2. Februar 1968 gratuliert Louis Camu, Präsident der Banque de Bruxelles, Pierre Werner zu dessen Vortrag „Perspektiven der europäischen Finanz- und Wirtschaftspolitik“, den der luxemburgischer Staatsminister und Regierungspräsident am 16. Januar 1968 vor dem Wirtschaftskongress der CDU in Saarbrücken gehalten hat.

Am 23. Februar 1968 gratuliert Karl Schiller, deutscher Bundesminister für Wirtschaft, Pierre Werner, luxemburger Staatsminister, Staatspräsident und Finanzminister, für seine Studie über „Die Perspektiven der europäischen Finanz- und Währungspolitik”.

Commenting on the completion of the customs union between the Six, due to take place on 1 July 1968, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, gives an address to the Benelux Committee, meeting on 1 April 1968 in The Hague, in which he outlines the prospects of European financial policy for the Benelux.

In the October 1968 issue of the monthly publication Communauté européenne, the French journalist, Jean Lecerf, compares the Werner Plan with the plan proposed by the Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE), both of which call on the Six to adopt a single currency.

Meeting between Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister (on the right), and French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (on the left) in 1969.

In June 1969, Pierre Werner, Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Luxembourg, announces his ideas on the European Communities’ monetary policy in Nieuw Europa, the monthly bulletin of the Dutch Section of the European Movement.

In his memoirs, former Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Werner recalls why 1968 was a pivotal year for monetary discussions.