On 28 March 1974, Willy Brandt criticises the state of European integration. He attacks the inability of the Member States of the European Community to adopt a joint position on the energy crisis. The German Chancellor deplores the uneasy relations between the European Communities and the United States and emphasises that European integration is impossible without the support of the United States. He also discusses the difficulties that the Nine are having in developing the European Union and advocates a period of consolidation.

On 4 September 1954, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, gives an account of the first 10 years of the customs union between Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. He stresses that this is merely one intermediary step on the road towards a united Europe.

Dans cette interview, Guy Gervais de Rouville, membre en mai 1948 de la délégation française au congrès de l'Europe à La Haye, évoque ses sentiments d'alors à l'égard de la délégation allemande et décrit la manière dont elle était traitée lors du congrès.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Head of Department in the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance, looks back at the end of the international monetary system, devised at Bretton Woods in 1944, following the United States’ decision in 1971 to uncouple the dollar from the value of gold.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Head of Department at the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance, discusses the principles which guided France's international and European monetary policy in the context of the end of the Bretton Woods system and the decoupling of the value of the dollar and the value of gold.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Treasury Director at the French Ministry of Finance, describes reactions in France following the publication of the Werner Report on the stage-by-stage creation of a European economic and monetary union. Jacques de Larosière particularly focuses on the establishment of the European monetary snake and the European Monetary Cooperation Fund (EMCF).

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Director of the Treasury in the French Finance Ministry and former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), explains why the European Monetary System (EMS) was set up and analyses its impact in the process leading to the establishment of European Economic and Monetary Union.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993, comments on the monthly meetings in Basel of the Governors of the Central Banks of the ‘Group of Ten', the name given to the ten countries participating in the General Agreements to Borrow (GAB).

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Governor of the Bank of France and former member of the committee chaired by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, which had the task of studying and proposing the practical stages leading to the gradual establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), summarises the objectives of this committee.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Governor of the Banque de France and former member of the committee chaired by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, which was set up to examine and propose practical steps leading to the gradual establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), discusses the working method used during the meetings of this committee.