Programme for the study day on ‘Central bankers and European integration’ organised by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 4 June 2010 in Sanem.

Marianne Backes, Director of the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), Olivier Feiertag from the University of Rouen and Frédéric Clavert from the CVCE introduce the study day on ‘Central bankers and European integration’, the aim of which is to examine the role and influence of central bankers and central banks with regard to the European institutions.

In the first part of the study day on ‘Central bankers and European integration’, chaired by Piet Clement from the Bank for International Settlements, Frédéric Clavert from the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) looks at the founding of the Bank for International Settlements. Ileana Racianu from the University of Geneva then describes the relations between the Governor of the National Bank of Romania, Dimitri Burillianu, and the political authorities in the early 1930s.

In the second part of the study day on ‘Central bankers and European integration’, chaired by Laurence Badel from the University of Strasbourg, Elena Danescu from the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe looks at the exploitation of Pierre Werner’s archives. Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol from the European University Institute then describes the role of central bankers from the failure of the Werner Plan to the creation of the European Monetary System, from 1974 to 1979. Finally, Vincent Duchaussoy from the Historical Research Unit of the Banque de France discusses the Banque de France and European constraints from 1979 to 1983.

In the third part of the study day on ‘Central bankers and European integration’, chaired by Olivier Feiertag from the University of Rouen, Hanspeter K. Scheller, former Secretary General of the European Monetary Institute and the European Central Bank, and Robert Raymond, former Director General of the European Monetary Institute, discuss their experience of central bankers.