In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Ministers Paul-Henri Spaak and Pierre Harmel, describes the position of Belgian diplomacy in the 1960s with regard to the United Kingdom’s possible accession to the European Communities.

In this interview, Étienne Davignon, Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Pierre Harmel, from 1966 to 1969, outlines the reasons which led to the drafting of the Harmel Report on the future tasks of the Atlantic Alliance.

In this interview, Étienne Davignon, Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Pierre Harmel, from 1966 to 1969, outlines the attitude of the Member Countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in particular the United States of America and France, towards the Harmel Report on the future tasks of the Atlantic Alliance.

In this interview, Étienne Davignon, former Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Foreign Minister, Pierre Harmel, outlines the reaction of Belgian diplomatic circles to the disclosure by British authorities of the substance of the confidential meeting between Christopher Soames, British Ambassador to Paris, and General de Gaulle in February 1969.