On 30 January 1957, the daily newspaper La Libre Belgique considers the economic and institutional implications of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) and criticises the attitude adopted by the Belgian Delegation and, in particular, by Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister and President of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Common Market and Euratom during the Val Duchesse negotiations between the representatives of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).