In this interview excerpt, Mark Eyskens, former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, describes the personality of former Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Werner and recalls the tensions between Brussels and Luxembourg following the unilateral devaluation of the Belgian franc in February 1982.

In this interview excerpt, Mark Eyskens, Belgian Minister for Finance from 1980 to 1981, Prime Minister in 1981, Minister for Economic Affairs from 1981 to 1985 and Minister for External Relations from 1989 to 1992, discusses the personality of François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995. He also emphasises the actions of François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl, German Federal Chancellor from 1982 to 1998, in the unification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the process towards Economic and Monetary Union.

In this interview excerpt, Mark Eyskens, Belgian Minister for Finance from 1980 to 1981, Prime Minister in 1981, Minister for Economic Affairs from 1981 to 1985 and Minister for External Relations from 1989 to 1992, describes the personality of several European political figures including Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1992, Helmut Schmidt, German Federal Chancellor from 1974 to 1982, and Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990.