From mid-April 1955 to June 1967, the offices of the Secretariat of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers are located in the building situated at 3 Rue Auguste Lumière, Verlorenkost, in Luxembourg.

Provisional programme of 6 September 1952 for the first meeting of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers held on 8, 9 and 10 September.

The account of the activities of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) Special Council of Ministers, from 8 September 1952 to 30 June 1954, sets out the composition, the operation and the powers of the Council, as well as its activities during the period between its 1st and 17th meeting.

On 28 April 1990, at the Special European Council held in Dublin, the Heads of State or Government of the Twelve take the decision to integrate a reunified Germany into the European Community.

On 9 March 1953, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly, hands to Georges Bidault, President of the Special Council of Ministers, the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community. During the ceremony, Georges Bidault gives an address in which he emphasises the importance of European integration.

First meeting of the ECSC Council of Ministers, held in Luxembourg on 8 September 1952. The photograph shows Joseph Bech, Luxembourg Foreign Minister, and Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister.

Discussions between the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech (left), the Italian Junior Foreign Minister, Paolo Emilio Taviani (middle), and the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer (right), at the inaugural session of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg on 8 and 9 September 1952.

Address delivered by Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority, at the meeting of the Special Council of Ministers of the ECSC held on 2 February 1953.

List of the delegations present at the first meeting of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), held in Luxembourg from 8 to 10 September 1952.

This internal memorandum of 12 December 1952 summarises the arguments which the Secretariat of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers intends to put to the Council in defence of its organisation plan. In particular, it outlines the need to adapt its staff to the working procedure of the Council, the provisional recruitment procedure, as well as the importance of maintaining equal treatment between the officials of the Secretariat of the Council and those of the other Community institutions and national administrations.