On 2 July 1965, Jean-Marc Boegner, Permanent Representative of France to the European Communities, sends a letter to the French Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, in which he gives an account of the breakdown of the Council’s discussions during the night of 30 June, which led to the empty chair crisis. The talks focused, in particular, on the financing of the common agricultural policy (CAP) and on the role of the European Parliamentary Assembly.