On 13 July 1984, in Saarbrücken, Roland Dumas, French Foreign Minister, and Waldemar Schreckenberger, Junior Minister to the German Federal Chancellor, sign the Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at the Franco-German border.

On 14 June 1985, in Schengen (Luxembourg), France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Benelux countries sign the Schengen Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders.

On 14 June 1985, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Junior Foreign Minister, welcomes the signing, the same day in Schengen, of the agreement on the gradual abolition of controls at the common borders between Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

On 14 June 1985, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs, signs the agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders between Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg and the Netherlands, on board the cruise ship ‘Princesse Marie-Astrid', moored at Schengen, Luxembourg.

On 14 June 1985, on board the cruise ship ‘Princesse Marie-Astrid’, moored in Schengen (Luxembourg), Paul De Keersmaeker, Belgian State Secretary for European Affairs, Waldemar Schreckenberger, State Secretary to the German Chancellor, Catherine Lalumière, French State Secretary for European Affairs, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Willem Frederik van Eekelen, Netherlands State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, sign the Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders.

In this interview, Catherine Lalumière, former French Junior Minister for European Affairs, describes the issues and difficulties surrounding the implementation of the agreement signed in Schengen, Luxembourg, on 14 June 1985 by the representatives of Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg and the Netherlands concerning the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders.