On 26 June 1956, in Brussels, Maurice Faure, Junior Minister in the Foreign Ministry and Head of the French Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, discusses with Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Intergovernmental Conference, the implications of the revival of European integration and the forthcoming diplomatic negotiations.
From 1 to 3 June 1955, enjoying a moment of relaxation during the Messina Conference on European Integration organised by the Six, Joseph Bech (left), Luxembourg Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, films the scene as his Belgian and Dutch counterparts, Paul-Henri Spaak (centre) and Jan Willem Beyen (right), look on in amusement.
In this interview, Étienne Davignon, Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, from 1964 to 1966, considers the role played by Paul-Henri Spaak in the resolution of the empty chair crisis.
On 26 April 1956, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee established by the Messina Conference, sends a letter to his German, French, Italian, Luxembourg and Netherlands counterparts in which he proposes the adoption of rules so that a Euratom Member State might depart from the principle according to which European States are committed to the development of nuclear energy and the nuclear industry for peaceful purposes.
On 13 March 1956, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, makes a statement to the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in which, emphasising the importance of a Common Market based on a customs union between the Six, he gives a progress report on the work of the Intergovernmental Committee, which he chairs, set up in connection with the revival of European integration.
On 30 June 1954, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, summarises the talks that he had had the same day in Paris with Pierre Mendès France, French Prime Minister, during which he explained the reasons behind some of his reservations regarding the plans for a European Defence Community (EDC).
On 9 March 1953, during a formal sitting at the Maison de l’Europe in Strasbourg, Paul-Henri Spaak, President of the Ad Hoc Assembly, officially hands over the draft Treaty establishing the European Political Community to the Foreign Ministers of the Six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
On 26 April 1955, Jean Rivière, French Ambassador to Brussels, sends French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay a telegram in which he reports on a meeting he had with Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister, concerning the question of the European revival.
On 25 March 1957, during the ceremony held in Rome to mark the signing of the Treaties establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, delivers an address in which he emphasises the historic importance of the event and pays tribute to those who worked towards a united Europe before him.
On 12 October 1956, Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, forwards to the Conference’s Committee of Heads of Delegation a memorandum in which he sums up the French and German memorandums regarding the establishment of a European Economic Community (EEC) and a European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).