At the invitation of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, gives a lecture on 21 November 1960 in Strasbourg entitled The contribution of European finance and currencies to economic integration and continental solidarity, in which he sets out the possible ways in which currency and finance might stimulate a movement towards economic integration, and the laws that should govern such a process.

Meeting between Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, and Robert Schuman in 1960.

Pierre Werner, Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, at the Annual Meeting of the IMF Governors, held in 1961 in Vienna.

In 1962, Pierre Werner (on the left), Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, and Robert B. Anderson (on the right), Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, take part in the Annual Meeting of the IMF Governors.

Pierre Werner, Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, at the Annual Meeting of the IMF Governors, held from 17 to 21 September 1962 in Washington.

On 27 November 1962, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, gives an address in Brussels to the members of the Association des amitiés belgo-luxembourgeoises in which he sets out his ideas on financial integration in Europe.

On 29 January 1963, Pierre Werner (on the right), Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, and Eugène Schaus (on the left), Luxembourg Foreign Minister, sign the protocol revising the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU) Convention.

Pierre Werner, Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, at the Annual Meeting of the IMF Governors, held from 30 September to 4 October 1963 in Washington.

In November 1963, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister (on the right), visits the Houses of Parliament in London and meets Sir Herbert Butcher, Chair of the British Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (on the left), and G. W. Aldington, British Ambassador to Luxembourg (centre).

During an official visit to London in November 1963, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, meets Reginald Maudling, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.

On 4 May 1964, during his official visit to Luxembourg, German Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard (on the right) meets Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (on the left).

On 4 May 1964, during his official visit to Luxembourg, German Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard meets Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government.

Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister (on the left), with Johan Witteveen, Netherlands Finance Minister (on the right), in 1964.

Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Minister for the Treasury, and Rolf Dahlgrün, Federal Minister for Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany, at the meeting of Finance Ministers of the European Economic Community (EEC) on 25 January 1965 in Antwerp.

On 24 February 1965, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, gives an address to the Chamber of Deputies in which he sets out the position of the Luxembourg Government on the main European and international issues.

Paul-Henri Spaak (on the left), Belgian Foreign Minister, and Pierre Werner (on the right), Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, at the meeting of the European Economic Community (EEC) held on 2 March 1965 in Brussels.

On 28 June 1966, in his capacity as President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Foreign Minister, outlines to the European Parliament the activities undertaken by the Council during this term of office.

On 12 September 1966, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, and Michel Debré, French Minister for the Economy and Finance, hold a joint press conference with Jacques Navadic, a journalist for RTL Luxembourg.

On 8 March 1967, George Brown, British Foreign Secretary, Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister, and Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (from left to right), meet in Luxembourg.

On the eve of the NATO Ministerial Meeting on 13 and 14 June 1967 in Luxembourg, German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt (on the left) meets Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (on the right), on 12 June.

As the Robert Schuman Prize is awarded at the University of Bonn on 29 June 1967, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State (left), and Joseph Bech, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State from 1926 to 1937 and from 1953 to 1958 (centre), meet the German Federal Chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (right).

On 25 September 1967, Pierre Werner, Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Luxembourg, takes part in the Annual Meeting of the IMF in Rio de Janeiro.

On 26 January 1968, Pierre Werner, Minister of State and President of the Luxembourg Government, gives an address in Saarbrücken at the CDU economic congress entitled ‘The outlook for European financial and monetary policy’. In this address, he sets out a ‘five-point action plan’ for European monetary integration based on the creation of a European unit of account, fixed exchange rates between European currencies, consultation, and internal and external solidarity between the Member States of the European Communities. He also raises the idea of a monetary cooperation fund.

On 28 January 1968, the daily newspaper L’Agence économique et financière comments on the study by Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister, entitled ‘Prospects for a European financial and monetary policy’.

On 2 February 1968, Louis Camu, President of the Bank of Brussels, congratulates Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister, on his presentation entitled ‘Prospects for a European financial and monetary policy’ given on 16 January 1968 at the CDU Economic Congress in Saarbrücken.

On 23 February 1968, Karl Schiller, German Minister for the Economy, congratulates Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State, President of the Government and Finance Minister, for his study on ‘The outlook for European financial and monetary policy’.

Commenting on the completion of the customs union between the Six, due to take place on 1 July 1968, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and President of the Government, gives an address to the Benelux Committee, meeting on 1 April 1968 in The Hague, in which he outlines the prospects of European financial policy for the Benelux.

In the October 1968 issue of the monthly publication Communauté européenne, the French journalist, Jean Lecerf, compares the Werner Plan with the plan proposed by the Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE), both of which call on the Six to adopt a single currency.

Meeting between Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Finance Minister (on the right), and French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (on the left) in 1969.

In June 1969, Pierre Werner, Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Luxembourg, announces his ideas on the European Communities’ monetary policy in Nieuw Europa, the monthly bulletin of the Dutch Section of the European Movement.

In his memoirs, former Luxembourg Prime Minister Pierre Werner recalls why 1968 was a pivotal year for monetary discussions.