In this interview, Helmut von Verschuer, former member of the Private Office of European Commissioner Sicco Mansholt, discusses the Commission’s preparations for the Stresa Conference of July 1958 and explains the importance of the outcome of this conference for the establishment of the common agricultural policy.

In November 1958, the European Confederation of Agriculture (ECA) expresses its opinion on the Resolution adopted by the Delegations of the six Member States of the European Economic Community (EEC) following the Stresa Agriculture Conference held from 3 to 12 July 1958.

In this interview, Georges Rencki, Head of Division responsible for relations with professional organisations in the Directorate-General for Agriculture (1959–1968), discusses the follow-up to the Stresa Conference and the first measures taken for the introduction of the common agricultural policy.

In this interview, Georges Berthoin, Head of the Delegation of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), then of the Commission of the European Communities to the United Kingdom until 1973, describes the issues dominating negotiations for the accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities from 1970 to 1972 and the course of those negotiations.