At the end of its first meeting, held in Luxembourg on 29 November 1952, the Commercial Affairs Committee forwards to the ECSC Special Council of Ministers a report on the negotiations with GATT. With these negotiations, the ECSC Member States aim to secure the exemptions from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade required for the establishment of a Common Market.

Minutes of the first meeting of the Council, held in Luxembourg from 8 to 10 September 1952, in the version submitted to the Council on 22 September 1952 and approved unanimously at the second meeting of the Council held on 1 and 2 December 1952.

In this interview, André Dubois, former attaché in the Secretariat of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), remembers the establishment of the Secretariat in Luxembourg and the working atmosphere in the team.

This internal memorandum of 22 October 1954 sets out the principles behind the establishment of the structure of the Secretariat of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers and, in particular, the principles behind the organisation of its administrative functions.

This summary of decisions taken at the ninth meeting of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers, held in Luxembourg on 12 and 13 October 1953, illustrates several of the institution's powers and responsibilities, in particular, its power to conclude international agreements, its power of appointment and its power to deliver opinions and to exchange information and engage in mutual consultation with the High Authority.

Press release issued after 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.

On 8 September 1952, in Luxembourg, the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, delivers the opening address at the ECSC Special Council of Minsters — having been appointed its first President on the basis of the alphabetical order of the names of the Member States — in which he outlines the Council’s objectives.

Published on 21 April 1959 in the Belgian daily newspaper Le Soir to mark the tenth anniversary of the Council of Europe, this article describes how the organisation was founded under the patronage of eminent European political figures. After emphasising the influence of the Consultative Assembly in promoting the European idea and the work of the Committee of Ministers in drafting conventions, the article’s author gives the European Convention on Human Rights a special mention as the most remarkable achievement of the Council of Europe.

List of the first members of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) .

On 8 September 1952, the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, chairs the inaugural session of the Special Council of Ministers of the ECSC in Luxembourg and delivers an opening address in which he outlines the specific role of the institution.