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), considers the discussions on the establishment of a European Central Bank that would be independent of political authority.

On 15 January 1951, the US delegate, Warren B. Austin, gives an address before the United Nations Assembly in which he denounces Communist imperialism in Korea and across the world and asks the UN to take measures to deal with the situation.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Governor of the Bank of France, analyses the difficulties experienced by the European Monetary System during the monetary crisis of 1992–1993.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former Governor of the Banque de France, describes the negotiations that led to the amendment of the Articles of Association of the Banque de France, particularly with the aim of making the bank independent from political power.

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), emphasises the advantages that, in his view, the European Central Bank (ECB) draws from its independence from political authority and its price stability policy.

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), explains France’s role in the European process of economic and monetary integration.

In this interview, Jacques de Larosière, former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), outlines the objectives of the EBRD and the way in which it works, and considers the developments in the geographical areas on which the bank’s activities are focused.

Interview with Jacques de Larosière, Assistant Director then Director of the French Treasury from 1967 to 1974 and 1974 to 1978 respectively, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1978 to 1987, Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993 and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from 1993 to 1998, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 22 May 2008 in his office in Paris. The interview was conducted by Frédéric Clavert, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: the International Monetary System and the end of the Bretton Woods system, France’s international and European monetary policy under Georges Pompidou, reactions to the Werner Plan and the creation of the European Monetary System, the Group of Ten, the Delors Committee and Economic and Monetary Union, the role of the European Central Bank, France’s role in the economic and monetary integration process and the role and workings of the EBRD.

Interview with Pierre Pescatore, Luxembourg diplomat from 1947 to 1967 and Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities from 1967 to 1985, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 11 February 2009 at Pierre Pescatore’s home. The interview was conducted by Étienne Deschamps, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: his early diplomatic career, the development of the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry, the Rome Treaties, the Fouchet Plans, the empty chair crisis, his university career and his role as a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

On 4 June 2009, at the Foreign Press Centre (CAPE) in Paris, Françoise Hostalier, member of the Defence Committee of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU), submits the report entitled The war in Afghanistan: what strategy for Europe? that she co-drafted with her colleague Jean-Pierre Kucheida from the Technological and Aerospace Committee.