In this interview, Willem van Eekelen, Netherlands Minister for Defence from 1986 to 1988 and Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) from 1989 to 1994, discusses the risk of seeing the Modified Brussels Treaty denounced following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, signed in 2007, and therefore of witnessing the disappearance of WEU.

In this interview, Willem van Eekelen, Netherlands Minister for Defence from 1986 to 1988 and Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) from 1989 to 1994, outlines the essential contributions made by WEU to the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of the European Union (EU) in the field of parliamentary control and military action, as well as the role played by WEU as a vector for the establishment of closer relations between the EU and the Atlantic Alliance.