In December 1939, Pierre Werner publishes an article in the journal of the Luxembourg Association of Catholic University Students, Academia. He examines the contribution that economics can make to intellectual life and to the national economy.

At the invitation of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, gives a lecture on 21 November 1960 in Strasbourg entitled The contribution of European finance and currencies to economic integration and continental solidarity, in which he sets out the possible ways in which currency and finance might stimulate a movement towards economic integration, and the laws that should govern such a process.

On 27 November 1962, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, gives an address in Brussels to the members of the Association des amitiés belgo-luxembourgeoises in which he sets out his ideas on financial integration in Europe.

On 24 October 1966, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, gives an address at the ceremony held in Luxembourg City for the inauguration of the Robert Schuman Monument, the Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge and the administrative building for the European institutions.

On 26 January 1968, Pierre Werner, Minister of State and President of the Luxembourg Government, gives an address in Saarbrücken at the CDU economic congress entitled ‘The outlook for European financial and monetary policy’. In this address, he sets out a ‘five-point action plan’ for European monetary integration based on the creation of a European unit of account, fixed exchange rates between European currencies, consultation, and internal and external solidarity between the Member States of the European Communities. He also raises the idea of a monetary cooperation fund.

On 28 January 1968, the daily newspaper L’Agence économique et financière comments on the study by Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister, entitled ‘Prospects for a European financial and monetary policy’.

On 2 February 1968, Louis Camu, President of the Bank of Brussels, congratulates Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister, on his presentation entitled ‘Prospects for a European financial and monetary policy’ given on 16 January 1968 at the CDU Economic Congress in Saarbrücken.

Commenting on the completion of the customs union between the Six, due to take place on 1 July 1968, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, gives an address to the Benelux Committee, meeting on 1 April 1968 in The Hague, in which he outlines the prospects of European financial policy for the Benelux.

In the October 1968 issue of the monthly publication Communauté européenne, the French journalist, Jean Lecerf, compares the Werner Plan with the plan proposed by the Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE), both of which call on the Six to adopt a single currency.

In June 1969, Pierre Werner, Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Luxembourg, announces his ideas on the European Communities’ monetary policy in Nieuw Europa, the monthly bulletin of the Dutch Section of the European Movement.

On 2 October 1969, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Finance Minister, gives an address at the Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in his capacity as Governor of the IMF for Luxembourg.

On 11 November 1969, as the draft state budget for the 1970 financial year is presented to the Chamber of Deputies, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, gives an address on the short- and medium-term programmes and projections, the economic and financial climate, currency, savings and credit.

On 28 February 1970, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, submits a new version of the text entitled The outlook for European financial and monetary policy, originally published in January 1968. In this new version, he proposes a five-point action plan for the achievement by stages of economic and monetary union. This document is known as the Luxembourg plan for monetary integration, or the first Werner Plan.

On 18 March 1971, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Finance Minister and Minister of State, gives an address in Munich in which he emphasises the need to establish a European economic and monetary union and outlines the prospects for success of such a union.

On 30 September 1971, Pierre Werner, Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, gives an address at the Annual Meeting of the IMF Governors in Washington.

On 1 October 1971, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Finance Minister and Minister of State, gives a lecture at the University of Liège in which he outlines the introduction of the first stage of European economic and monetary union and analyses the crisis facing Europe.

On 16 October 1971, the Association of Friends of President Robert Schuman presents Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, with a gold medal struck with the profile of Robert Schuman, to mark his contribution to the European integration process.

On 28 January 1971, at the first World Economic Forum in Davos, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, sets out his vision on the establishment of economic and monetary union as a step towards a political Europe.

On 3 February 1972, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, gives an address at the University of Paris on the circulation of productive capital in Europe.

On 11 February 1972, at a meeting of the European Movement Luxembourg, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Finance Minister and Minister of State, sets out his vision of the establishment of economic and monetary union as a step towards a political Europe.

On 11 May 1972, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Finance Minister and Minister of State, gives an address to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in which he outlines the various stages for a European economic and monetary union.

On 12 November 1973, at the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, gives an address on European monetary union, the dollar and international reform.

On 30 October 1974, in the midst of the energy crisis, inflation and international monetary chaos, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, gives an address to the Chamber of Deputies in which he expresses the Luxembourg Government’s concern at the possible repercussions of the crisis on the economic and monetary integration process.

In 1980, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister, gives a presentation to the Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels entitled From the Werner Plan to the European Monetary System (EMS).

On 4 June 1983, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, Pierre Werner, gives an address at the 25th Congress of the Association Cambiste Internationale (ACI — the Financial Markets Association) on Luxembourg in the international financial environment.