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In this interview, Willem van Eekelen, Netherlands Minister for Defence from 1986 to 1988 and Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) from 1989 to 1994, discusses the negotiations on the transfer of the seat of WEU from London to Brussels, an event which took place in 1993 and gave rise to tensions between France and the United Kingdom.