In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Ministers Paul-Henri Spaak and Pierre Harmel, describes the position of Belgian diplomacy in the 1960s with regard to the United Kingdom’s possible accession to the European Communities.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, from 1964 to 1966, describes the disappointment felt by the European Commission following the institutional compromise accepted by the Six in Luxembourg on 29 January 1966.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, from 1964 to 1966, considers the role played by Paul-Henri Spaak in the resolution of the empty chair crisis.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, from 1964 to 1966, considers at length the negotiations between the Member States of the European Communities that led to the ‘Luxembourg Compromise’ on 29 January 1966, which put an end to the empty chair crisis that had begun on 30 June 1965.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Director-General for Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry and former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency (IEA), describes the attitudes of the various Member Countries of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after the 1973 oil crisis.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Director-General for Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry and former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency (IEA) established within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), considers France’s refusal to take part in the work of the IEA.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Director-General for Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry and former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency (IEA), considers the establishment of this Agency within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) following the first oil crisis in 1973.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Director-General for Policy in the Belgian Foreign Ministry, considers the inability of the nine Member States of the European Communities to define a common energy policy following the first oil crisis in 1973.
In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, describes what he sees as the remarkable achievements of Étienne Davignon in the area of European integration.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Member of the Commission of the European Communities with special responsibility for the Internal Market, Industrial Affairs and the Customs Union, considers the importance for the European Commission of being able to participate in the meetings of the European Council and in the G7, the informal grouping of the Heads of State or Government of the United States, Japan, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada.