On 14 January 1962, following 140 hours of negotiations, the first European ‘agricultural marathon’ concludes with the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Six to move to the second stage of the transitional period and to organise common agricultural markets for each product, to apply specific rules on competition and to create a European Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF).

On 25 April 2005, at the ceremony held to mark the signing, in Luxembourg, of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union, Simeon Sakskoburggotski, Bulgarian Prime Minister, delivers an address in which he emphasises the historic dimension of the event for his country.

On 25 April 2005, at the ceremony held to mark the signing, in Luxembourg, of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union, Traian Basescu, President of Romania, delivers an address in which he emphasises the historical importance of this Treaty for his country and gives an account of the path taken by Romania since the fall of the dictatorship in 1989.

In this interview, Egon Bahr, a journalist working in Berlin and Bonn from 1945 to 1960, talks about the Berlin Blockade that followed the Second World War as well as the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in 1949. He makes special mention of the difficulties of anchoring, politically and militarily, the FRG in the Western bloc without hazarding any prospects of reunification with the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

In August 1954, while Egon Bahr was working in Berlin as editor-in-chief of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) he attended debates in the French National Assembly on ratification of the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community (EDC). He comments on the refusal of the National Assembly to ratify this Treaty as well as on this decision's consequences for the European integration process.

In this interview, Egon Bahr, former journalist and editor-in-chief of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS), refers to the motives underlying the Soviet initiative of 10 March 1952. In an attempt to block the signing of the Treaty instituting European Defence Community (EDC), the Soviet Union proposed making Germany a reunified State, but one that was neutral and demilitarised.

In this interview, Egon Bahr, former journalist and editor-in-chief of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) as well as member of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) since 1956, discusses the divisions within the SPD concerning the European integration process until the 1961 nomination of Willy Brandt as Social Democratic candidate for the post of Federal Chancellor.

In this interview, Egon Bahr, the former Director of the Press and Information Office of the Federal State of Berlin appointed by Willy Brandt, then Mayor of West Berlin, summarises the different stages from the early 1960s onwards in the development of Ostpolitik, or the policy of opening towards the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Eastern states.

In this interview, Egon Bahr, former Junior Minister to the German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, explains the rapprochement that developed between the two Germanies by means of the new Ostpolitik adopted by the FRG. Firstly, he discusses the negotiations which led to the signing of the Moscow Treaty on 12 August 1970. Later, he recalls the discussions held with Michael Kohl, Junior Minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which in turn led to the signing of the Basic Treaty on 21 December 1972.

In this interview, Egon Bahr, former Junior Minister to the German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, discusses the implications of the negotiations leading to the signing of the Warsaw Treaty on 7 December 1970 between the FRG and Poland, and lays particular stress on the question of the Oder-Neisse Line.