In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, who served as Director-General for European Affairs in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1952 then senior official at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) until 1967, recalls with amusement the reactions of his colleagues in the Netherlands, including Foreign Minister Johann Willem Beyen, when Wellenstein left for Luxembourg.

In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, who served as Director-General for European Affairs in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1950 to 1952 then senior official at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) until 1967, describes the personality and political philosophy of Jean Monnet, first President of the ECSC High Authority.

In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, senior official at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) between 1953 and 1967, describes how the first ECSC officials were received by the government authorities and the general public in Luxembourg.

In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, senior official at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) between 1953 and 1967, discusses the nature of relations between the High Authority and European industrial circles in the light of the policy imposed by the Allies after the Second World War for the dismantling of cartels.

In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, former Dutch official and senior official at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the European Commission, analyses the achievements of the European integration process since its early days and adds a note of encouragement for the future.

In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, senior official at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) between 1953 and 1967, emphasises the importance of the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) for the ECSC, which initially lacked a common customs tariff.

In this interview, Edmund Wellenstein, Secretary-General of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) between 1960 and 1967, describes the personality and decisive action of Émile Noël, his counterpart within the EEC Commission.

On 23 July 2002, in Brussels, the flag of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) is lowered during a ceremony held in the presence of Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, and of Enrico Gibellieri, the last President of the ECSC Consultative Committee, to mark the expiry of the Treaty of Paris which established the ECSC for a period of 50 years. Later, at a reception at the Egmont Palace, Romano Prodi pays a warm tribute to the work of the first European Community and to individual former officials of the High Authority.

On 25 November 1957, in Luxembourg, the Six, the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and the United Kingdom sign a tariff agreement on iron and steel products.

On 1, 2 and 3 June 1955, the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) meet in Messina to examine the conditions for a European revival. At the end of the meeting, the Six appoint René Mayer, former President of the French Council of Ministers, as President of the ECSC High Authority, and task a committee of government delegates and experts, chaired by an eminent political figure, to prepare the treaties on a European common market and a European atomic organisation.