On 19 March 1970, the West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, meets his East German counterpart, Willi Stoph, in Erfurt, East Germany, to discuss how to improve relations between Bonn and Berlin.
On 10 July 1954, as he is about to set off for Geneva to negotiate an end to the hostilities in Indo-China, Pierre Mendès France addresses the citizens of France and outlines his Government’s position.
On 30 August 1954, the French National Assembly refuses to discuss the diplomatic document which would allow the President of the Republic to ratify the EDC Treaty.
In RTL radio’s news bulletin of 12 May 1970, Robert Boulay explains how the Six reached agreement on a timetable which will allow negotiations to be opened with the four countries applying for accession to the European Communities: Denmark, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom. Pierre Harmel, Belgian Foreign Minister, also explains how the forthcoming reduction in the number of Members of the European Commission from 14 to 9 — which means that his country may now nominate only one Commissioner — should not cause too many problems, despite the multilingual nature of Belgium.
Reporting on the agricultural marathon on 30 June 1965, in Brussels, RTL journalist Georges Levhat comments on the positions taken by the various speakers and on the atmosphere at the negotiations. It is the failure of these talks which angers France and leads to the six-month empty chair crisis.
In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, describes the role played by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997, in establishing the Italian Government’s position in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union in 1992.
In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, discusses the work of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008, as Chairman of Notre Europe from 2005 to 2010.
In this interview excerpt, Élisabeth Guigou, Secretary-General of the Interministerial Committee for Questions on European Economic Cooperation from 1985 to 1990 and Special Adviser to French President François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1990, discusses the circumstances in which she met Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997. She particularly describes Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa’s contribution to the work of the ‘Guigou Group’, which was set up to carry out additional work following the submission in 1989 of the Delors Report on the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
In this interview excerpt, Élisabeth Guigou, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the French National Assembly since 2012 and a member of the Board of the ‘Notre Europe’ think tank, discusses the work of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008, as Chairman of Notre Europe from 2005 to 2010.
