In this interview excerpt, Bernard Snoy et d’Oppuers, an official at the World Bank from 1974 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1986, Economic Adviser at the Commission of the European Communities in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs from 1986 to 1988, Executive Director of the World Bank from 1991 to 1994, Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1994 to 2002 and Chairman of Robert Triffin International since 2008, describes Belgium’s priorities for the revival of European integration in the second half of the 1950s. His father, Count Jean-Charles Snoy et d’Oppuers, former head of the Belgian delegation to the Intergovernmental Committee created by the Messina Conference and to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom and former Chairman of the Interim Committee for the Common Market and Euratom, played a major role in this process.