In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994 and Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999, describes the circumstances surrounding his appointment as Minister for the Economy after the 1989 parliamentary elections in Luxembourg.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Cooperation from 1984 to 1989, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994 and Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999, explains how Luxembourg’s European policy is organised between the members of the government, the Foreign Ministry and the Luxembourg Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Cooperation from 1984 to 1989, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014, describes the impact that the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 had on the subsequent stages of the European integration process.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994 and Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999, looks back at the debates that took place in the 1990s over the building of the A10 motorway in Luxembourg.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994 and Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999, looks back at the consequences for the political scene in Luxembourg of the appointment in 1994 of Jacques Santer, Luxembourg Prime Minister from 1984 to 1995, as President of the European Commission, a post that he took up on 23 January 1995.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994 and Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999, describes the growth of the financial centre in Luxembourg in the 1990s and discusses the efforts made to try to diversify the Luxembourg economy and make it less dependent on the country’s financial centre.