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The empty chair crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise

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Interview with Georges Berthoin (Paris, 22 July 2005) — Excerpt: the empty chair crisis as seen by the British

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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 attitude taken by the British authorities with regard to the empty chair crisis and the Luxembourg Compromise in 1965–1966.