In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former Director of the Legal Service of the Secretariat of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and member of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, discusses the Secretariat’s role and working methods during the Val Duchesse negotiations.

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former Director of the Legal Service of the Secretariat of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and member of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, recalls the atmosphere and attitude of the members of the various national delegations during the Val Duchesse negotiations.

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former Director of the Legal Service of the Secretariat of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and member of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, discusses the role of the Legal Group during the Val Duchesse negotiations.

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former Director of the Legal Service of the Special Council of Ministers of the Secretariat of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and member of the of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, describes the role played by Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, during the Val Duchesse negotiations.

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former Director of the Legal Service of the Secretariat of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and member of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, describes the influence of the international context on the Val Duchesse negotiations that paved the way for the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).

The Court of First Instance was set up in 1989 with the aim of shouldering some of the workload falling to the Court of Justice, thus strengthening the judicial protection available to citizens.

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former Director of the Legal Service of the Secretariat of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and member of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, discusses the formal signing by the Six, on 25 March 1957 in Rome, of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former Legal Adviser for the coal and steel pool to the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), recalls the stance taken by Ludwig Erhard, German Minister for Economic Affairs, and West German industrial circles on the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, former legal adviser for the coal and steel pool at the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), looks back at the difficulties involved in the application of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), with particular regard to the abolition of export subsidies.

In this interview, Hubert Ehring, Financial Controller and Director-General of the Directorate-General (DG) for Financial Control from 1968 to 1972, outlines the beginnings and the establishment of this department in 1968.