In 1980, Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Prime Minister, gives a presentation to the Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels entitled From the Werner Plan to the European Monetary System (EMS).

On 4 June 1983, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, Pierre Werner, gives an address at the 25th Congress of the Association Cambiste Internationale (ACI — the Financial Markets Association) on Luxembourg in the international financial environment.

On 28 June 1988, the Hanover European Council decides to entrust to a Committee chaired by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, the task of studying and proposing concrete stages leading towards an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

In April 1989, Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, proposes to the Twelve the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in three stages, intended to lead to the adoption of a single European currency.

Table listing the members of the committee chaired by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, responsible for submitting and proposing practical steps leading towards gradual establishment of economic and monetary union (EMU).

On 12 April 1989, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities, publishes the ‘Delors Report' which proposes that economic and monetary union (EMU) be achieved in three stages.

On 18 April 1989, the Spanish daily newspaper El País analyses the impact of the economic and monetary union (EMU) propounded by Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, on the functioning of the European Communities.

On 18 April 1989, the French daily newspaper Le Monde comments on the Delors Report on the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

On 19 April 1989, Emanuele Gazzo, Director of Agence Europe, criticises the position taken by Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, and by Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Delors Report on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

On 21 April 1989, Emanuele Gazzo, Director of Agence Europe, urges the political leaders of the Twelve to respond positively to the proposals set out in the Delors Report on the establishment of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

On 19 April 1989, the British left-wing newspaper The Guardian wonders whether the Delors Plan for Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will not help to create a two-speed Europe.

Margaret Thatcher, the then British Prime Minister, recalls the publication of the Delors Report in April 1989 and describes her critical response to the plan.

In his memoirs, Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission between 1985 and 1995, discusses the establishment, the composition and the work of the Delors Committee which, on 12 April 1989, proposes to the Member States of the European Communities the creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in three stages.

On 27 June 1989, following the Madrid European Council, Felipe González Márquez, Spanish Prime Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, and Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, outline the implications of the three stages leading to Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

On 28 June 1989, the day after the Madrid European Council’s decision to approve the gradual implementation of economic and monetary union (EMU), the British left-wing daily newspaper The Guardian calls for the European states to implement greater monetary discipline.

On 4 July 1989, commenting on the outcome of the Madrid European Council held on 26 and 27 June, the French daily newspaper Le Monde indicates some ambiguities in the Delors Report and the Twelve’s difficulties in securing a joint definition of the aims of and the arrangements for Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

On 2 November 1989, the Bruges Group, a British think-tank, calls on British MPs to reject the Delors Report on Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

In a text from 1989, Pierre Werner compares the two stage-by-stage plans for an economic and monetary union: the Werner Report (8 October 1970) and the Delors Report (12 April 1989).

On 2 July 1990, John Major, Chancellor of the Exchequer, expresses his point of view on the Delors Report and on the different stages of economic and monetary union (EMU).

In a lecture given in 1992, Jacques Delors analyses the similarities and differences between the two stage-by-stage plans for an economic and monetary union: the Werner Report (8 October 1970) and the Delors Report (12 April 1989).