Interview with Philippe de Schoutheete, Belgian Permanent Representative to the European Union from 1987 to 1997, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 4 March 2010 in the studios of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. The interview, conducted by Hervé Bribosia, Research Coordinator at the CVCE, particularly focuses on the following subjects: the beginnings of Philippe de Schoutheete’s diplomatic career and cooperation between the Benelux countries, France’s European policy from 1958 to 1961, various eminent Belgian figures in the 1950s, the 1966 Luxembourg Compromise, Pierre Harmel, NATO, WEU, the prospect of Spanish accession to the European Communities, the Tindemans Report, European affairs in the Belgian Foreign Ministry, the 1982 Belgian Presidency and the Stuttgart Declaration of June 1983.

Interview with Philippe de Schoutheete, Belgian Permanent Representative to the European Union from 1987 to 1997, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 31 March 2010 in the studios of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. The interview, conducted by Hervé Bribosia, Research Coordinator at the CVCE, particularly focuses on the following subjects: the Single Act, political cooperation and the 1987 Belgian Presidency, Belgium’s European policy, Coreper, the beginnings of the single market and the Delors I package, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Maastricht Treaty, the 1993 Belgian Presidency, the achievements of the Delors Commission and the war in the Balkans.

Interview with Philippe de Schoutheete, Belgian Permanent Representative to the European Union from 1987 to 1997, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 9 April 2010 in the studios of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. The interview, conducted by Hervé Bribosia, Research Coordinator at the CVCE, particularly focuses on the following subjects: enlargement to 15 Member States and the Ioannina Compromise, the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Treaty of Nice, the beginnings of the European constitutional process, the role of the European Commission in the work of the European Convention, the institutional reforms introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon and the origins of these reforms, the failure of the European Constitution and its consequences, and ‘the end and the means’.