On 6 March 2013, the CVCE, in partnership with the European Merit Foundation, held a conference at the Cercle Cité in Luxembourg City entitled ‘EMU at the crossroads. The relevance of Pierre Werner’s thinking in the 21st century’, to mark the publication of the CVCE’s research project on the ideas and achievements of Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Werner in favour of European economic and monetary integration in the 1970s.