In this interview excerpt, Francis Gutmann, Policy Officer in the Directorate of Economic and Financial Affairs (Economic Cooperation) at the French Foreign Ministry from 1955 to 1957 and a member of the French delegation to the Brussels Conference on the Common Market from 1956 to 1957, discusses how the general public and the French Government perceived the work for the revival of European integration, particularly after the Intergovernmental Committee established by the 1955 Messina Conference and chaired by Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak published a report by the heads of delegation on the Common Market and Euratom, known as the Spaak Report.