In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, considers the political project for an economic and monetary union that was launched in the late 1980s and also describes Helmut Kohl’s position on this project.

In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, discusses the memorandum of 29 March 1990 by the Belgian Government setting out a plan for a political union, which was sent to the other Member States of the European Communities.

In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, looks at the actions of the Dutch Presidency of the Council of the European Communities in 1991 which attempted, without success, to submit an alternative to the plan submitted by the preceding Luxembourg Presidency; the Dutch idea was to create a single tree structure for the European Union rather than the pillar structure.

In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, gives his views on the Treaty on European Union signed in 1992 in Maastricht.

In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, gives his views on the method employed by the European Convention on the Future of Europe and on the idea of a European Constitution.