In this interview excerpt, Philippe de Schoutheete, Honorary Belgian Ambassador and economic attaché in Paris from 1958 to 1961, discusses Jean-Charles Snoy et d’Oppuers, a strong character who served as General Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs from the end of the Second World War to 1959 and in this capacity signed the Rome Treaties on behalf of Belgium.

In this interview excerpt, Philippe de Schoutheete, Honorary Belgian Ambassador, discusses various legendary figures in Belgian diplomacy in the 1950s: Hervé de Gruben and Louis Scheyven, former General Secretaries of the Foreign Ministry, and Jules Guillaume, Ambassador to Paris from 1944 to 1959.