Interview with Egon Bahr, Director of the Press and Information Office of the Federal State of Berlin from 1960 to 1966, Ambassador Extraordinary, Under-Secretary and Head of the Policy Planning Staff in the German Federal Foreign Office from 1966 to 1969, State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery from 1969 to 1972, Federal Minister for Special Affairs and Federal Commissioner for Berlin from 1972 to 1974, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation from 1974 to 1976, Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1976 to 1981 and Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg from 1984 to 1994, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 10 June 2006 in Metz. The interview was conducted by François Klein, a Scientific Collaborator at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: Germany — from defeat to the beginnings of European integration; the new ‘Ostpolitik’ of Willy Brandt; the Federal Republic of Germany and European integration from 1966 to 1974; Franco-German relations from General de Gaulle to Georges Pompidou; and Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt and European integration.