In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, Head of the European Commission delegation for negotiations on enlargement of the European Communities from 1970 to 1973 and responsible for the free-trade agreements with the other countries in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), explains the specific difficulties involved in the negotiations with Finland, particularly referring to the nature of its relations with the Soviet Union.
In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, Director-General for Foreign Trade at the Commission of the European Communities from 1967 to 1970, describes the strategic importance of the European Communities’ relations with Greece and Turkey in the 1960s, particularly highlighting the external influence of the United States.
In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, senior official at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) between 1953 and 1967, describes relations within the High Authority following the resignation of its President, Jean Monnet, in 1955, and the appointment of Monnet’s successor, René Mayer.
In September 1984, in an article in the Dutch journal Internationale Spectator, Edmund P. Wellenstein, former Director-General for External Relations of the European Commission, analyses the outcome of the Fontainebleau European Council held on 25 and 26 June 1984.
Am 24. März 1966 fassen Charles Reichling, Direktor für Außenbeziehungen der Hohen Behörde der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS), und Edmund Wellenstein, Generalsekretär der Hohen Behörde, die sechs Verhandlungssitzungen über die Assoziation Österreichs mit der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) und über die bei einer möglichen Ausweitung auf die EGKS auftretenden Probleme zusammen.
On 29 September 1971, Paolo Cecchini, Head of the Task Force of the Commission of the European Communities for the enlargement of the Communities and chief negotiator for the trade agreements with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), sends a note to Edmond Wellenstein, Head of the Delegation from the Commission of the European Communities to the negotiations on the enlargement of the Communities, in which he outlines the respective positions of Sweden and the Commission with regard to the country’s possible accession to the European Communities.
On 18 January 1971, the Portuguese Foreign Ministry sends to its Diplomatic Missions abroad a confidential circular to inform them of the operation and aims of the exploratory talks which began on 7 January in Brussels between Ruy Teixeira Guerra, Head of the Portuguese Delegation, and Edmond Wellenstein, Director-General of Foreign Trade at the Commission of the European Communities.