On 20 February 1969, Sicco Mansholt, European Commissioner with special responsibility for agriculture, gives an interview to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, on his plan to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP)

In February 1965, Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the European Commission, reviews the decisions adopted by the Council of Ministers on 15 December 1964.

On 20 March 1953, at the European Conference on the Organisation of Agricultural Markets in Paris, the Dutch Minister for Agriculture gives an address on the issues surrounding the unification of the agricultural markets in Europe.

On 8 April 1972, commenting on the French referendum on the ratification of the Treaty on the accession to the European Communities of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Norway, to be held on 23 April, the RTL editorial team in Paris ponders on the implications of the proposals put forward by Sicco Mansholt, President of the European Commission, for a fundamental reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP).

On 6 November 1950, Sicco Mansholt, Dutch Agriculture Minister, sends a note to his Luxembourg counterpart, François Simon, outlining the objectives of the implementation of a Europe-wide organisation of agricultural markets.

Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the Commission of the EEC in charge of agriculture, thanks the delegations of the six Member States of the European Economic Community meeting in Stresa from 3 to 12 July 1958 to discuss the common agricultural policy.

In January 1962, Sicco Mansholt, Vice-President of the European Commission with special responsibility for agricultural policy, welcomes the decision taken by the Council of Ministers to move directly to the second stage of the European Customs Union and to introduce a common agricultural policy (CAP).

In this interview, Hans-August Lücker, former general rapporteur on agricultural matters in the European Parliament, recalls the personality and working methods of Sicco Mansholt, European Commissioner for Agriculture and, in 1970, the author of an ambitious plan to reform the common agricultural policy (CAP).