Nach dem Gipfel von Paris (19.-21. Oktober 1972) bringt der französische Präsident Georges Pompidou seine Freude darüber zum Ausdruck, dass die Neun sich für die Schaffung einer Europäischen Union entschieden haben. Der niederländische Premierminister Barend Biesheuvel begrüßt die Entscheidung, die europäischen Institutionen zu stärken.

Am 27. Oktober 1970 verabschieden die Außenminister der Sechs in Luxemburg den Davignon-Bericht, der durch Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Außenpolitik Fortschritte bei der politischen Einigung erzielen will.

Am 23. November 1970 verfasst Achille Albonett, ehemaliger hoher Europa-Beamter und Direktor des nationalen Rates für Atomenergie, ein Dokument für Franco Maria Malfatti, Vorsitzender der Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften, in dem er die Initiativen zur Einrichtung einer europäischen politischen Gemeinschaft zusammenfasst.

On 17 February 1971, a confidential note from the Commission of the European Communities sets out the implications of political union on the way in which the Community functions and outlines the Commission’s role within the mechanism provided for in the Davignon Report.

Auf einem Gipfel vom 19. bis zum 21. Oktober 1972 in Paris bekräftigen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der auf neun Mitglieder erweiterten Gemeinschaft ihre Absicht, noch vor Ablauf des Jahrzehnts die Gesamtheit ihrer Beziehungen in eine Europäische Union umzuwandeln.

On 11 October 1972, in Brussels, the Belgian politician, Fernand Dehousse, former President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, delivers a lecture to the Belgian Royal Institute for International Relations (IRRI) on the implications of the Paris Summit, to he held on 19, 20 and 21 October.

Am 23. Juli 1973 nehmen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaften in Kopenhagen den Bericht über die Vertiefung der europäischen politischen Zusammenarbeit an.

Bei ihrem Gipfeltreffen am 14. und 15. Dezember 1973 in Kopenhagen bekräftigen die Staats- und Regierungschefs der neun Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaften „ihre Absicht, vor Ablauf des Jahrzehnts die Gesamtheit ihrer Beziehungen in eine Europäische Union umzuwandeln“.

On 19 December 1974, Gaston Thorn, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, informs the Chamber of Deputies of the political outcome of the Paris summit of the Heads of State or Government of the Nine.

In this interview, Jean François-Poncet, former Secretary-General of the Presidency of the French Republic and former Foreign Minister, identifies the weaknesses of European Political Cooperation (EPC) in the late 1970s.

In seiner Rede am 6. Januar 1981 in Stuttgart spricht sich Bundesaussenminister Hans-Dietrich Genscher für eine verstärkte politische Kooperation zwischen den Zehn aus.

On 3 February 1981, Agence Europe publishes the full text of the address given on 28 January 1981 in Florence by Emilio Colombo, Italian Foreign Minister, in favour of strengthening European Political Cooperation.

Addresses given in the European Parliament on European Political Cooperation by Gaston Thorn, President of the Commission, Willy Brandt and Mariano Rumor.

On 1 and 2 December 1980, meeting in Luxembourg as the European Council, the Heads of State or Government of the Ten give their verdict on the report by the Committee of the Three Wise Men.

At the summit held on 29 and 30 March 1985, the European Council holds an exchange of views with the ad hoc Committee on Institutional Affairs. In accordance with the mandate given to the committee in Fontainebleau, it has drafted a report to enable the European Council to arrive at final conclusions by June.

On 25 June 1975, the European Commission publishes its report on transforming the whole complex of the relations of Member States into a European Union.

In diesem Interview legt der ehemalige belgische Premierminister Leo Tindemans dar, wie er von seinen Kollegen am Ende des Gipfels von Paris vom 9. und 10. Dezember 1974 dazu ausersehen wurde, einen Bericht über die Europäische Union zu verfassen, und erläutert, wie er sein Team für diese Aufgabe zusammengestellt hat.

On 11 September 1975, Jacques-René Rabier, Special Adviser to the European Commission, sends a note to Carlo Scarascia Mugnozza, Vice-President of the Commission, reporting on talks between a delegation from TEPSA (Trans European Policy Studies Association) and Leo Tindemans, Belgian Prime Minister.

On 27 September 1975, Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans gives an interview to the Dutch section of the European Movement in which he describes the objectives and procedures of his mission to define the notion of a ‘European Union’.

In this interview, Jean-Jacques Kasel, Legation Attaché in the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry from 1973 to 1976, describes how the Tindemans Report on European Union, published on 29 December 1975, was received by the Heads of State or Government of the nine Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) during the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Communities, from 1 January to 30 June 1976.

In his memoirs, Leo Tindemans, former Belgian Prime Minister, describes the way in which his report on European Union was received in 1975 by his European counterparts, in particular by the French President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and outlines the subsequent developments in the European Communities that were already recommended in the Tindemans Report.

In the Dutch journal Internationale Spectator, Leo Tindemans, former Belgian Prime Minister and author of the Tindemans Report on European Union in 1975, looks back, twenty years on, at the origins of the report and the reactions that it engendered.

On 24 September 1979, Dirk Spierenburg presents to the Commission the report drawn up under his chairmanship on reforming the Commission of the European Communities and its services.

In October 1979, the Committee of the three wise men - composed of Barend Biesheuvel from the Netherlands, Edmund Dell from Ireland and Français Robert Marjolin - submit to the European Council their report on improving the mechanisms and the procedures of the Community institutions.

On 1 and 2 December 1980, meeting in Luxembourg as the European Council, the Heads of State or Government of the Ten give their verdict on the report by the Committee of the Three Wise Men.

On 12 November 1981, Emilio Colombo, Italian Foreign Minister, writes to his British counterpart, Lord Peter Carrington, explaining the reasons that led the Italian Government to draw up a draft European Act providing for political cooperation between the Ten.

Addresses given in the European Parliament on European Political Cooperation by Gaston Thorn, President of the Commission, Willy Brandt and Mariano Rumor.

Die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Zehn Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaft unterzeichnen am 19. Juni 1983 in Stuttgart die Feierliche Deklaration zur Europäischen Union.

Am 30. Juni 1983 zieht Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl am Rednerpult des Europäischen Parlamentes die Bilanz des Europäischen Rates von Stuttgart und fordert eine baldige Inkraftsetzung der Europäischen Politischen Zusammenarbeit.