On 19 October 1956, with a view to the meeting of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), to be held on 20 and 21 October 1956 in Paris, the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) sets out its position on the progress made in the work of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom.
On 20 and 21 October 1956, the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) meet in Paris in order to analyse the progress of the negotiations taking place at the Château de Val Duchesse during the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom.
On 21 October 1956, in Paris, the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) issue a press release which indicates that the Val Duchesse negotiations will be continued at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom.
On 25 October 1956, following the meeting in Paris between the Foreign Ministers of the Six on 20 and 21 October 1956, the French Foreign Ministry reviews the conference and outlines the progress made in the negotiations on the establishment of a Common Market and Euratom. The note particularly focuses on the German position on each of the items addressed in the negotiations.
On 22 October 1956, Karl Carstens, Assistant Bureau Director at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Member of the German Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, sends an encoded telegram to Walter Hallstein, German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, on the outcome of the negotiations held by the Six in Paris on 20 and 21 October on the plans for a European Economic Community (EEC) and a European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).
At the conference held from 25 to 28 March 1987 in Rome to mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Émile Noël, former representative of the French Prime Minister, Guy Mollet, during the Val Duchesse negotiations, recalls the outcome of the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), which was held in Paris on 20 and 21 October 1956.
The meeting between Mollet and Adenauer in Paris (5-6 November 1956)
On 5 November 1956, in anticipation of the meeting between Mollet and Adenauer in Paris, Max Kohnstamm, Vice-President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe, sends a preparatory note to French Prime Minister Guy Mollet in which he outlines the position of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on Euratom and the Common Market and explains how the Franco-German discussions should be approached in order to break the deadlock in the negotiations on the future European treaties.
On 8 November 1956, officials of the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) outline the achievements of the meeting, held on 5 and 6 November in Paris, between Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Guy Mollet, French Prime Minister, with particular regard to questions which were left open at the meeting, held on 20 and 21 October in Paris, between the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) on the Common Market and Euratom.
On 8 November 1956, Christian Pineau, French Foreign Minister, forwards to the French diplomatic representatives in Bonn, Rome, Brussels, The Hague, Luxembourg, London and Washington a telegram in which he reports on the progress made during the Franco-German discussions on the proposals for Euratom and the Common Market.
On 12 November 1956, the West German Foreign Ministry summarises the meeting, held on 5 and 6 November in Paris, between Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Guy Mollet, President of the French Council of Ministers, on the Common Market and Euratom.