On 5 November 1956, in anticipation of the meeting between Mollet and Adenauer in Paris, Max Kohnstamm, Vice-President of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe, sends a preparatory note to French Prime Minister Guy Mollet in which he outlines the position of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on Euratom and the Common Market and explains how the Franco-German discussions should be approached in order to break the deadlock in the negotiations on the future European treaties.