On 13 April 1951, at the Fifth Benelux Economic Congress in Rotterdam, Johannes Linthorst Homan, who would subsequently become director of European integration in the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1952 to 1958, gives an address on agriculture in the Benelux and speculates on the future of agriculture for Western Europe. He looks at the state of European cooperation on agriculture and engages in a discussion with Maurice Piette from the Belgian Agricultural Alliance on a possible future organisation for European agriculture.