In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, looks back at the circumstances surrounding the devaluation of the Belgian franc in 1981 and how this decision was implemented.

In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, describes the personality of Pierre Werner, Minister of State and President of the Luxembourg Government from 1959 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1984.

In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, discusses the debates in Europe in the early 1980s, particularly in Belgium, on the question of the deployment of US missiles in Western Europe in response to the positioning by the Soviet Union of medium-range missiles on its territory from 1977 onwards.

In this interview excerpt, Wilfried Martens, Belgian Prime Minister from 1979 to March 1981 and December 1981 to 1992, explains how the European Community showed little interest in Belgium’s Africa policy in the 1980s, particularly Belgium’s relations with Mobutu’s Zaire and with Rwanda in 1990.