In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Director-General for Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry, describes the preparations for what was to become the ‘Davignon Report’, which recommended greater cooperation between the Member States of the European Communities in the area of international policy.

In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Director-General for Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry, explains how the Foreign Ministers of the Six reacted to the ‘Davignon Report’, which recommended greater cooperation between the Member States of the European Communities in the area of international policy.

In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Director-General for Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry, explains the influence of the 1970 ‘Davignon Report’ on political cooperation in the area of European policy on the establishment of the European Union common foreign and security policy (CFSP) in the 1990s.