In this interview, Jean Mischo, member of the Legal Service of the Commission of the European Communities from 1964 to 1969 and Chief Administrator in the Cabinets of European Commissioners Victor Bodson and Albert Borschette from 1969 to 1970, discusses the 1969 Hague Summit that determined the arrangements for a revival of the European integration process; these included the establishment of a committee of experts, chaired by Pierre Werner, tasked with analysing the establishment by stages of economic and monetary union in the European Community.