On 18 January 1966, France takes part in the extraordinary Council meeting held in Luxembourg with a view to ending the empty chair crisis. Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, extends a warm welcome to his French counterpart, Maurice Couve de Murville.
On 23 October 1954, in Paris, the five Member States of Western Union (France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg), together with Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), sign the Protocol Modifying and Completing the Brussels Treaty of 1948, thereby establishing Western European Union. From left to right: Konrad Adenauer, Joseph Bech, Paul-Henri Spaak, Pierre Mendès France and Gaetano Martino.
On 6 May 1955, the Netherlands Council of Ministers makes an initial assessment of the instructions to be given to Foreign Minister Johan Willem Beyen with a view to his forthcoming meetings with his Belgian and Luxembourg counterparts, Paul-Henri Spaak and Joseph Bech, on the revival of the European integration process.
On 9 May 1955, the Netherlands Council of Ministers outlines the instructions to be given to Foreign Minister Johan Willem Beyen with a view to his forthcoming meetings with his Belgian and Luxembourg counterparts, Paul-Henri Spaak and Joseph Bech, on the revival of the European integration process.
On 26 June 1956, in Brussels, the Heads of Delegation of the Six officially open the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom. From left to right, in the Grand Salon of the Belgian Foreign Ministry: Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Conference, Lodovico Benvenuti (Italy), Baron Jean-Charles Snoy et d’Oppuers (Belgium), Karl Friedrich Ophüls (Federal Republic of Germany), Maurice Faure (France), Johan Linthorst Homan (Netherlands) and Lambert Schaus (Luxembourg).
In The Real Life Europe, the Dutch federalist Henri Brugmans recalls the scope of the Messina Conference, held from 1 to 3 June 1955, and briefly describes the methods subsequently adopted by Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee established by the Six following the Conference.
On 23 April 1955, Johan Willem Beyen and Joseph Luns, who share responsibility for the Dutch Foreign Ministry, send the Dutch diplomatic representatives abroad a telegram in which they review the consultations between Beyen and Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak concerning European revival.
On 5 July 1955, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Council of Western European Union (WEU), gives an address at the first session of the Assembly of WEU.
On 11 May 1956, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee established by the Messina Conference, attends the debates of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) on the Spaak Report and responds, in particular, to the criticisms of the French delegate, Michel Debré.
Im Jahr 1964 unterbreitet Paul Henri Spaak in der Communauté européenne mehrere Vorschläge, um die Bemühungen für ein politisches Europa wiederzubeleben.