In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, Minister for the Economy and Minister for Public Works from 1989 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014, describes the issues that first sparked his interest in politics, including the process of decolonisation and the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, Minister for the Economy and Minister for Public Works from 1989 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014, discusses how he first became involved in the LSAP in the 1960s while he was working for the newspaper Tageblatt.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, Minister for the Economy and Minister for Public Works from 1989 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014, looks back at the people who influenced him the most, particularly Robert Krieps and Jacques F. Poos. He also describes the LSAP’s close relations with the West German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Socialist International.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, Minister for the Economy and Minister for Public Works from 1989 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014, looks back at the Prague Spring, which was an attempt by Alexander Dubček, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, to establish democracy in the country in 1968. Robert Goebbels also describes the impact of these events in Luxembourg.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, a journalist at the Tageblatt from the early 1960s onwards and General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, looks back at the debates that took place in Luxembourg in the 1960s over the European integration process.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, a journalist at the Tageblatt from the early 1960s onwards and General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, explains the reasons for the split in the LSAP in 1970 and looks at the repercussions of this division.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, a journalist at the Tageblatt from the early 1960s onwards and General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, describes the circumstances surrounding the LSAP’s participation in the government led by Gaston Thorn from 1974 to 1979. Robert Goebbels particularly looks at the social and societal reforms introduced by this government, the first since the Second World War not to include members of the Christian Social Party (CSV).

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, a journalist at the Tageblatt from the early 1960s onwards and General Secretary of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) from 1971 to 1985, discusses the impact and the economic and social consequences of the steel crisis in Luxembourg in the 1970s, particularly following the growth of the financial centre.