In this interview excerpt, Philippe de Schoutheete, Honorary Belgian Ambassador and Director of the service for the coordination of European matters within the Belgian Foreign Ministry from 1976 to 1980 (service P 11, which later became the Directorate-General for European Affairs and Coordination — DGE), describes the personality of Henri Simonet, Belgian Foreign Minister from 1977 to 1980, while explaining the role and working methods of service P11 and particularly referring to the question of the liberalisation of the professions.

In this interview excerpt, Philippe de Schoutheete, Honorary Belgian Ambassador and Head of the Private Office of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, Belgian Foreign Minister, from May 1980 to September 1981, describes the personality of Nothomb, and recounts the episode in which US Euromissiles were deployed on Belgian territory.