In this interview, Georges Berthoin, Principal Private Secretary (from 1952 to 1956) to Jean Monnet and then to René Mayer during their respective Presidencies of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community, describes the atmosphere prevailing within the High Authority and the Community administration in Luxembourg in the early 1950s.

In this interview, Georges Berthoin, Head of the Delegation of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) and subsequently of the Commission of the European Communities to the United Kingdom until 1973, describes the first steps and the legal implications of the diplomatic mission of the High Authority, which was established in London in 1956.

In this interview, Max Kohnstamm, Secretary of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1952 to 1956, discusses Jean Monnet’s working methods and the prevailing atmosphere at the seat of the High Authority in Luxembourg in the early 1950s.

In this interview, Max Kohnstamm, Secretary of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1952 to 1956, recalls the economic and political significance of the loan granted in 1954 by the United States to the High Authority.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Head of Jean Monnet’s Private Office at the French National Planning Board from 1947 to 1952, discusses the personality and work of René Mayer, successor to Jean Monnet as the President of the ECSC High Authority in 1955.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, who worked for Jean Monnet at the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1953 to 1955 and was Director of the Information Service of the High Authority from 1953 to 1958, describes the establishment and initial work of the ECSC High Authority in Luxembourg during its early years.

Dans ses Mémoires, Jean Monnet décrit le développement de l'esprit européen après la mise en oeuvre à Luxembourg de la Haute Autorité de la Communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier (CECA).

On 12 May 1949 in Bonn, General Pierre Koenig, Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the French Zone of Germany, General Lucius D. Clay, Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Zone of Germany, and General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the British Zone of Germany, adopt the Charter of the Allied High Commission for Germany for the exercise, from 21 September 1949, of Supreme Allied Authority in the Federal Republic of Germany under the leadership of three High Commissioners (André François-Poncet, John McCloy and Sir Brian Hubert Robertson).

‘And even if the neighbours are jealous, we are the ones who have it.’ On 4 October 1952, in the satirical journal de Peck-Villchen, Luxembourg cartoonist Simon emphasises the role of the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech, in the temporary establishment of the seat of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in Luxembourg.