In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Director of the Information Service of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1953 to 1958 and Director-General of the Press and Information Service of the European Communities from 1958 to 1973, discusses the establishment of the Joint Press and Information Service following the creation of two new Communities alongside the ECSC in 1958: the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Director of the Information Service of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) from 1953 to 1958 and Director-General of the Press and Information Service of the European Communities from 1958 to 1973, describes the nature of the policy of information on the European Communities’ activities.

In this interview, Jacques-René Rabier, Director-General of the Press and Information Service of the European Communities from 1958 to 1973, considers France’s attitude to the information policy established by the European Communities, in particular in the context of the empty chair crisis in 1965.