In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Head of Jean Monnet’s Private Office at the French National Planning Board from 1947 to 1952, considers the origins of his commitment to European integration and discusses the circumstances surrounding his appointment by Jean Monnet in 1947.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Head of Jean Monnet's Private Office at the French National Planning Board from 1947 to 1952, discusses Jean Monnet's convictions regarding European integration.

In this interview granted to RTL radio journalists in Paris on 22 January 1972, Jean Monnet discusses his career and outlines the evolution of his commitment to Europe, which began in the interwar period.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Head of Jean Monnet’s Private Office at the French National Planning Board from 1947 to 1952, describes Jean Monnet’s working methods and network of contacts.

Pierre Gerbet, Emeritus University Professor at the Paris Institute of Political Science, outlines the originality of the method — sometimes referred to as the ‘small steps' approach — of gradual and sectoral integration advocated by Jean Monnet, the man behind the plan for a European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1950.

During this interview in February 2004, Archduke Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen, President of the International Paneuropean Union, describes Jean Monnet's personality and his ‘step-by-step' approach to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, who worked for Jean Monnet at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1953 to 1955 and was Director of the Information Service of the High Authority from 1953 to 1958, describes the establishment and initial work of the ECSC High Authority in Luxembourg during its early years.

On 10 August 1952, Jean Monnet inaugurates the first session of the ECSC High Authority, which he chairs, with an address in which he emphasises how important it is for the work of the Members of the High Authority to be seen to be independent of national influence.

In this interview, Georges Berthoin, Principal Private Secretary (from 1952 to 1956) to Jean Monnet and then to René Mayer during their respective Presidencies of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, describes the atmosphere prevailing within the High Authority and the Community administration in Luxembourg in the early 1950s.

The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) High Authority building, in Place de Metz, Luxembourg.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Head of the Private Office of Jean Monnet at the French National Planning Board from 1947 to 1952, explains his personal experience of the preparations for the Schuman Plan within the National Planning Board. He also describes the atmosphere when Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, made his declaration on 9 May 1950 in the Salon de l’Horloge at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris, a declaration that Jacques-René Rabier witnessed at first hand.

On 6 May 1950, Jean Monnet and his close colleagues draw up the ninth and final draft of what will become the Schuman Declaration.

On 22 January 1972, in an interview for RTL radio in Paris, Jean Monnet refers to the origins of the Schuman Plan.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Director of the Information Service of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1953 to 1958 and Director-General of the Press and Information Service of the European Communities from 1958 to 1973, describes the nature of the policy of information on the European Communities’ activities.

In this interview, Paul Collowald, former Joint Spokesman of the European Commission, outlines the various stages of the establishment of the European Commission's Press Service.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Director-General of the Press and Information Service of the European Communities from 1958 to 1973, considers France’s attitude to the information policy established by the European Communities, in particular in the context of the empty chair crisis in 1965.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Director-General of the Press and Information Service of the European Communities from 1958 to 1973 and Special Adviser to the European Commission with responsibility for public opinion polls from 1973 to 1986, describes how the Eurobarometer public opinion survey was devised and outlines the political and scientific objectives of this survey, which was launched on an experimental basis in autumn 1973.