At the conference held from 25 to 28 March 1987 in Rome to mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Paolo Emilio Taviani, former Italian Defence Minister, outlines the attitude of the United States towards the proposed European Defence Community (EDC) and the nature of the solutions considered after its failure.
At the conference held from 25 to 28 March 1987 in Rome to mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Dirk Spierenburg, former Member of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), outlines how, after the failure of the European Defence Community (EDC), the High Authority, and, in particular, its President, Jean Monnet, concentrated its efforts on the drafting of an Association Agreement between the ECSC and the United Kingdom.
At the conference held from 25 to 28 March 1987 in Rome to mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Charles Rutten, former Secretary of the Netherlands Delegation for the intergovernmental negotiations on the European Defence Community (EDC), on the EEC and on the EAEC, recalls the circumstances in which the final meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) took place at the Messina Conference on European revival held on 1, 2 and 3 June 1955. He also considers the reasons why this conference was held.
At the conference held from 25 to 28 March 1987 in Rome to mark the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Charles Rutten, former Secretary of the Netherlands Delegation for the intergovernmental negotiations on the European Defence Community (EDC), on the EEC and on Euratom, considers the activities of Johan Willem Beyen, Netherlands Foreign Minister at the time, with particular regard to the revival of the European integration process through the establishment of a Common Market.
On 18 September 1954, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, gives an address to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in which he deplores the persistent disputes between France and Germany which led the French National Assembly to reject the Treaty of the European Defence Community (EDC) a few days earlier.
Having been invited by Jean Monnet to visit the offices of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg in 1955, Henri Rieben, Chairman of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe (Lausanne), discusses the mindset and determination of the first European civil servants.
In this interview, Henri Rieben, President of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe (Lausanne), recalls the establishment of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE) of which he was, from 1955, the first Administrative Secretary.
With the Korean War (1950–1953), the Communist threat seems to be more topical than ever. The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), at the instigation of its Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, is making every effort to integrate politically and militarily into the West. The end of the Allied occupation and accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1954, the creation of a new army in 1955 and the signing in 1957 of the Rome Treaties are allowing Germany, despite the failure of the proposed European Defence Community (EDC), to integrate fully into the Western bloc.
In this interview, André Dubois, former member of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, describes the prevailing atmosphere between the various national delegations during the negotiations at the Château de Val Duchesse.
