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What memory keep you on 25 March 1957, the signing of the Treaty of Rome
It is probably the great day of my life. I was the youngest of the signatories. Chancellor Adenauer was to my left and Christian Pineau, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, to my right. We were all together twelve behind a long table in the room of the Orazi and Curiazi of Capitol Hill, in Rome. I was at the time that Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, but the Prime Minister Guy Mollet had left me his place because he knew that I was with my collaborators, one of the main artisans of the Treaty. I remember that it was raining the day here. There were before us hundreds of photographers who came to celebrate the event. It was a poignant moment.
Has this Treaty been easy to negotiate
Yes, instead. After the failure of the EDC, in 1954, it took back the slope. The six countries constituting the ECSC had the idea to give to Paul - Henri Spaak, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Presidency of a Committee of notable people such as Félix Gaillard, to reflect further integration European. They gave us his report in Venice, in May 1956, and we, Ministers, we are coupled to the drafting of two treaties, on the common market, the other on the development of nuclear energy civil.
In September, when I presented the mass of French claims to Paul-Henri Spaak, he became red for anger, interrupted the meeting and said that is was not the penalty to open negotiations. I reassured him by saying that would surely be a compromise. So were: problems to set one by one and all found a solution. Except the question of agriculture and the seat of the institutions, which necessitated the meeting of Heads of State.
What was your role
I was the French negotiator. Every Thursday, we met at the château de Val Duchesse, Brussels. I divisais a large sheet of paper in several columns: the first, I noted the French position, in the second concessions acceptable and in the third the result of the negotiations. I rarely returned to Paris without that third column being filled.
Its ratification has posed less problems than the ECSC
It is true, it did not raise considerable political battles. The war of Algeria is for many, because the French had their children and looked in that direction. In Parliament, I had to intervene to meet all objections of Pierre Mendès France, who, finally, voted against the Treaty with a party of radicals. I remember to be mounted to the platform one evening in July 1957 at 9: 30 pm and I improvised. It was a triumph. I do not say this because it's me, but I won the accession of the largest number (the text has been approved by 342 votes against 239).
The Treaty of Rome held, according to you, all his promises
Provided that, at the end of three stages of four years, decisions would be taken by majority. A day of 1965, Walter Hallstein, President of the commission, arrived with a project scheduled to be voted in the majority: the France refused to its adoption on the pretext that one of the six was against and could not impose a decision against his will. De Gaulle led the policy of the empty chair for six months.
For me, is the great bifurcation of Europe. It is at this time that the European Community to the project of the Europe of States has been abandoned. Europe has missed the boat at the time there. This is what allowed Britain to enter Europe.
How do you consider the contribution of the France in the Union
The France has played a leading role: with my excellent staff, Donnedieu de Vabre, Robert Marjolin, Georges Vedel, François-Poncet, it was always the solution. And then the France was in a position of strength, winner of the second world war and the only one able to manufacture the atomic bomb.
Who best understood it, it is the Chancellor Adenauer. Whenever it was negotiating with him, he arranged to give reason for the France, even against the German interest, because he remembered the war. It was a great statesman. It has really facilitated the first steps in Europe.
Do you have regrets
I believe that Europe will be a consolidation of States, as de Gaulle wished. There is no integrated Europe. But it will nevertheless keep reports preferred, much preferable to those of prior to 1957. The main contribution of Europe, it is peace.
