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 this interview, Helmut von Verschuer, former member of the Private Office of European Commissioner Sicco Mansholt, recalls the difficult negotiations on the common agricultural policy during the first agricultural marathon from December 1961 to January 1962.

In this interview, Helmut von Verschuer, former member of the Private Office of European Commissioner Sicco Mansholt, explains the attitude of the United States towards the establishment of a common agricultural policy, and describes his visit to the United States in 1962 with the President of the Commission, Walter Hallstein.