During its first two years, the ECSC Special Council of Minsters holds its meetings in the Salle des Mariages in Luxembourg City Hall. Its inaugural meeting is held on 8 September 1952.
On 4 May 1959, at a meeting of the Special Council of Ministers of the Six and the Vice-Presidents of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the representative of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) submits to his colleagues a Community plan to resolve the coal crisis and advocates the adoption of special measures to support the Belgian coal industry.
On 10 September 1952, the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) decides to establish an Ad Hoc Assembly responsible for the drafting of a European Political Community (EPC) Treaty within a period of six months.
On 4 May 1959, speaking in a personal capacity in a bid to overcome the differences existing between the Six, Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, President-in-Office of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), puts forward various suggestions on ways to approximate the different points of view regarding the solution to the European coal crisis.
On 15 September 1954, the Information and Documentation Service of the Council of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) publishes a brief historical overview of the establishment of Western Union (WU).
During its first two years, the ECSC Special Council of Ministers holds its meetings in the Luxembourg City Hall. Its inaugural meeting is held on 8 September 1952. View of the main entrance hall.
Minutes of the first meeting of the Coordination Committee (Cocor) of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers, held in Luxembourg on 5 March 1953. The minutes are approved at the meeting held on 17 April.
On 9 February 1956, in an interview with RTL journalist Robert Diligent, the Belgian, Jean Rey, President-in-Office of the Special Council of Ministers of the ECSC, gives a positive progress report on the first three years of existence of the common market in coal and steel.
Interview with André Dubois, Attaché in the Legal Affairs Service of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community from 1954 to 1955, Member of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom (Val Duchesse) from 1955 to 1957, Head of Division for Accessions, Associations and the OEEC in the Secretariat-General of the Council of the European Economic Community from 1958 to 1969, Head of the Secretariat at the first conference for accession to the Rome Treaties from 1961 to 1963, Director of the Accessions, Relations with EFTA Countries, Mediterranean Policy and Trade Policy Division in the Secretariat-General of the Council of the European Economic Community from 1969 to 1975, Deputy Director-General for the Trade Policy, Development Cooperation Policy, North/South Conferences, Asia and Latin America Division in the Secretariat-General of the Council of the European Communities from 1975 to 1980, Director-General for External Relations and Development Cooperation in the Secretariat-General of the Council of the European Communities from 1980 to 1994 and Special Adviser at the European Commission from 1995 to 1998, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 8 December 2006 in the studios of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. The interview was conducted by Étienne Deschamps, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: the workings and powers of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers, the Secretariat of the ECSC Special Council of Ministers and the revival of European integration, and the workings and powers of the Council of the European Communities.
Photo showing the Presidents of the four institutions of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), taken in Luxembourg on 8 February 1955. From left to right: Emilio Battista, President-in-Office of the Special Council of Ministers, Giuseppe Pella, President of the Common Assembly, Jean Monnet, President of the High Authority, and Massimo Pilotti, President of the Court of Justice.