In this interview excerpt, Sir Brian Unwin, Chairman of the Board of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise in the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1993, discusses his appointment to this post and the main issues he worked on during this period.

In this interview excerpt, Sir Brian Unwin, Chairman of the Board of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise in the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1993, discusses the main European issues he worked on during this period. He particularly mentions the establishment of the single European market, the discussions over whether the UK should sign the Convention implementing the agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders signed in Schengen on 14 June 1985, and the harmonisation of value-added tax (VAT) between the different Member States of the European Communities.

In this interview excerpt, Sir Brian Unwin, Chairman of the Board of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise in the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1993, discusses the ‘Scott enquiry’ into the illegal sale of nuclear arms parts by a British company to Iraq.

In this interview excerpt, Sir Brian Unwin, a diplomat in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1960 to 1968, a senior official in Her Majesty’s Treasury from 1968 to 1985, Chairman of the Board of Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise from 1987 to 1993 and President of the European Investment Bank from 1993 to 1999, speaks about the public debate in the United Kingdom on the country’s continued membership of the European Union.