On 15 May 1970, in view of the fact that Johann-Baptist Schöllhorn, German Chairman of the Medium-Term Economic Policy Committee, did not lend his support to the proposal to establish a ‘European Exchange Equalisation Fund’ during the first stage of the Werner Plan, Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens sends a letter to Willy Brandt, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), in which he asks the German Government to support this plan.