Interview with Paul Collowald, Director of the joint European Communities Information Service from 1958 to 1959; spokesman for Robert Marjolin, Vice-President of the European Commission, from 1959 to 1967; deputy spokesman for the European Commission from 1967 to 1972; Director in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Information from 1973 to 1984; Director-General for Information and Public Relations of the European Parliament from 1984 to 1988; and Head of the Private Office of Pierre Pflimlin, President of the European Parliament, from 1984 to 1987, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 27 and 28 June 2002 at the CVCE’s home in the Château de Sanem. The interview was conducted by Étienne Deschamps, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: the Council of Europe and the early days of European unification; the information policy of the European Communities; and the growing powers of the European Parliament.