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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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In 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.

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On 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.

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On 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.

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On 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.

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The 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.

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On 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.

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On 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.

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On 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’.

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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.

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In 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.

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Issue 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.

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Pierre 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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