The interdisciplinary research institute DynamE — Dynamiques européennes at the University of Strasbourg has recently published a new issue of its Cahiers FARE entitled 'Le couple franco-allemand vu par certains États tiers depuis 1963'.
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During the DH Benelux 2016 conference, Dr Elena Danescu and Henriette Heimbach gave a presentation entitled ‘The Werner Committee and the debates on European economic and monetary integration’.
MoreThe recording of the academic event entitled ‘Pierre Werner and Luxembourg: a vision of Europe’ has recently been published.
MoreIn connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project and the ‘Oral history of European integration’ programme, the Professor Emeritus Niels Christoffer Thygesen granted an interview to the CVCE on 9 March 2016.
MoreIn connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project, the CVCE, Robert Triffin International and the Pierre Werner Foundation, with the participation of PIE Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, organised an academic event entitled ‘Pierre Werner and Luxembourg: a vision of Europe’.
MoreThe CVCE, Robert Triffin International and the Pierre Werner Foundation, with the participation of PIE Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, are organising an academic event entitled ‘Pierre Werner and Luxembourg: a vision of Europe’.
MoreFrom 11 to 13 June 2015, the University of Turin hosted the 12th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP).
MoreOn 22 May, Viviane Reding, a Member of the European Parliament, was invited to the CVCE to give an interview in connection with both the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project and the project for the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2015.
MoreOn 20 May 2015, in connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project and the Oral history of European integration programme, the CVCE will be conducting an interview with Sir Brian Unwin.
MoreFrom 19 to 21 March 2015, the National Bank of Belgium hosted the ‘Architects of the euro’ workshop. This workshop will serve as the basis for an academic publication by the British Academy, due to be released in 2016.
MoreOn 19 December 2014, the CVCE and the Werner family renewed their cooperation by signing a rider to the cooperation and confidentiality agreement that provides for the exploitation of the Pierre Werner family archives over the next four years.
MoreOn 24 April 2014, the CVCE hosted a workshop on the ‘Founding Fathers of Economic and Monetary Union’. This workshop will form the basis for an academic publication by the British Academy, due to be released in 2015, entitled ‘Founders of the euro: Intellectuals and policy makers in the making of Economic and Monetary Union’, edited by Professors Kenneth Dyson and Ivo Maes.
MoreThe CVCE has recently published the proceedings of the round table ‘Pierre Werner: accounts of a European vocation’. The book provides a record of the public event that the CVCE and its partners — the Pierre Werner Institute, the European Merit Foundation, the Cercle Pierre Werner and SES — held on 27 November 2013 at the Cultural Exchange Centre of the Abbaye de Neumünster to mark the centenary of Pierre Werner’s birth.
MoreThe recordings of the round table and the international conference, held on 27 and 28 November 2013 to mark the centenary of Pierre Werner’s birth, are now online.
MoreOn 29 December 2013, Pierre Werner would have celebrated his 100th birthday. To commemorate this occasion, a series of events were held at the Abbaye de Neumünster to pay tribute to this eminent Luxembourg politician who left his mark on the country’s future and on the European integration process.
MoreOn 14 and 15 November 2013, the international seminar ‘In search for a Christian Democratic identity’, organised with the support of the Centre for European Studies, was held at the Université catholique de Louvain.
MoreOn 29 December 2013, Pierre Werner would have celebrated his 100th birthday. To commemorate this occasion, a series of events will be held at the Abbaye de Neumünster to pay tribute to this eminent Luxembourg politician who left his mark on the country’s future and on the European integration process.
MoreFrom 2 to 4 September 2013, UACES (the academic association for contemporary European studies) will be holding its 43rd annual conference in Leeds. This year’s theme is ‘Exchanging ideas on Europe’.
MoreOn 20 June 2013, the Director of the CVCE, Marianne Backes, presented Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker with the proceedings of the conference ‘EMU at the crossroads. The relevance of Pierre Werner’s thinking in the 21st century’.
MoreOn Friday 7 June 2013, Jacques Santer, Honorary Minister of State and President of the European Merit Foundation (FME), and Marianne Backes, Director of the CVCE, signed a partnership framework agreement between the two institutions at the Château de Sanem.
MoreOn 13 and 14 June 2013, the University of Strasbourg and its Institute of Political Studies are holding a conference entitled ‘The Franco-German duo as seen by third states since 1963’. The CVCE will be represented by Dr Elena Danescu with her contribution ‘European integration in the 1970s: Pierre Werner and the Franco-German duo’.
MoreDr Elena Danescu, Researcher at the CVCE and coordinator of the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project, was invited to present the results of her research at the 13th biennial conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), which took place from 9 to 11 May in Baltimore.
MoreThe recording of the conference ‘EMU at the crossroads. The relevance of Pierre Werner’s thinking in the 21st century’, organised by the CVCE in cooperation with the European Merit Foundation, is now available for consultation on this site.
MoreOn 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.
MoreIn connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project, the CVCE and the European Merit Foundation are organising a conference entitled ‘EMU at the crossroads’, to be held on 6 March 2013 in Luxembourg City.
MoreIssue 4/2011 of the journal Histoire, Économie et Sociétés is dedicated to the subject of central bankers and European integration and was coordinated by Frédéric Clavert from the CVCE and Olivier Feiertag from the University of Rouen.
MoreOn 4 and 5 December 2012, a seminar entitled ‘European responses to economic and social changes. From the 1970s to the New Millennium’ was held at the University of Luxembourg, the latest in a seminar cycle organised in connection with the Master’s in Contemporary European History.
MoreA rereading of the Werner Report of 8 October 1970 in the light of the Pierre Werner family archives
The CVCE has recently published a research corpus that presents the results of the first stage of its ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ project on the European vocation and achievements of Pierre Werner, a former Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, unanimously recognised as one of the key figures behind Economic and Monetary Union.
MoreOn 30 October 2012, a research seminar entitled ‘The Werner Plan and its consequences in the light of the Werner family archives’ was held at the University of Luxembourg in connection with the Master’s in Contemporary European History, as part of the programme of the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration History.
MoreThe Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d’Histoire (the history research centre based at the University of Lorraine), in cooperation with the CVCE, is holding a study session on 9 and 10 November 2012 entitled ‘A momentous year. Turmoil in Europe in 1973’.
MoreOn 10 July 2012, the CVCE and the Netherlands-based institute Huygens ING officially presented the book Common Fate, Common Future. A documentary history of monetary and financial cooperation in Europe 1947–1974 at the Cercle Munster in Luxembourg City.
MorePierre Werner (29 December 1913–24 June 2002) was an illustrious and complex figure whose life spanned the 20th century. He was an economist, legal expert, politician and diplomat, a leading light in the European integration process — particularly monetary integration — who helped shape contemporary Luxembourg. He was a prominent Catholic scholar who was active in academia and played an influential role in European and American economic networks. It is now ten years since his death, but he remains an inspiration for many Luxembourgers who observed his achievements at both national and European level.
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