In this interview, Charles Goerens, former member of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) and its President from 1987 to 1990, discusses WEU's recourse to Article VIII of the Modified Brussels Treaty, aimed at crises outside Europe, in 1987 in order to establish its first concerted action in the war between Iran and Iraq.

In this interview, Charles Goerens, Luxembourg Minister for Defence from 1999 to 2004, former member of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) and its President from 1987 to 1990, discusses the political and operational dependence of Europeans on the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) during the Cleansweep naval minesweeping operation led by WEU in the Persian Gulf in the late 1980s.

In this interview, Charles Goerens, Luxembourg Minister for Defence from 1999 to 2004, former member of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) and its President from 1987 to 1990, assesses the various operations led by WEU between 1988 and 2001 in the Persian Gulf and the Balkans.

In this interview, Charles Goerens, Luxembourg Minister for Defence from 1999 to 2004, former member of the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) and its President from 1987 to 1990, recalls the limits of the operations led by WEU, and particularly its non-intervention in the African Great Lakes region.