On 20 March 1962, the National Assembly meets in extraordinary session to debate the Evian Accords signed two days earlier which declare a ceasefire in Algeria and the organisation of a referendum on the future of the French département and grant full powers to the Government.

In this interview, Pierre Pescatore, former Secretary-General of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, outlines Luxembourg’s position on the empty chair crisis and defines the nature and the political implications of the Luxembourg Compromise.

On 10 August 1952, Jean Monnet inaugurates the first session of the ECSC High Authority, which he chairs, with an address in which he emphasises how important it is for the work of the Members of the High Authority to be seen to be independent of national influence.

On 19 March 1958, the European Parliamentary Assembly elects the Frenchman Robert Schuman as its President. In his first speech as head of the institution, the man who pronounced the Declaration of 9 May 1950, the founding act of the European adventure, highlights the changes made to the way in which the European Parliament works since the entry into force of the Treaties signed in Rome in March 1957.

On the 10th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, the French journalist Arthur Conte publishes an article entitled 'Bandung, a turning point in history' in which he describes the role of this meeting at a global level.

In the referendum held on 25 September 1972, the Norwegians vote against their country joining the European Communities. The following day, RTL 7p.m. news broadcast covers the issue in depth and gives its listeners the opportunity to hear the opinions of Sicco Mansholt, President of the European Commission, and Jean Monnet, Chairman of the Action Committee for a United States of Europe.

On 22 June 2005, in a plenary sitting of the European Parliament in Brussels, José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, notes the achievements of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

In this programme broadcast on RTL radio on 19 January 1974, the journalist Roger Priouret, Jacques Rueff, member of the French Academy and expert on monetary issues, Michel Debré, MP and former Prime Minister under Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, and Antoine Pinay, former Finance Minister and Ombudsman of the French Republic, give their reactions to the decision taken by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French Finance Minister, to float the French franc outside the fixed parities of the European monetary snake for a period of six months in order to cope with the international monetary crisis.

On 12 December 2000, in Strasbourg, Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, summarises to Members of the European Parliament the achievements of the Nice European Council and of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

On 10 August 1950, in an address to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, outlines the substance of his 9 May Declaration for a European coal and steel pool and reports on the progress of intergovernmental negotiations.