On 12 May 1955, commenting in the Brussels daily newspaper Le Soir on the implications of the revival of European integration, the Socialist MP for Brussels, Marc-Antoine Pierson, advocates the establishment by the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) of a European nuclear energy community which would involve the integration of nuclear energy production for peaceful purposes.

In 1956, Victor Bodson, Luxembourg Minister for Transport and Electricity and Chairman of the National Nuclear Energy Council (CNEN), outlines the situation in Luxembourg with regard to the implications of the industrial use of nuclear energy.

On 23 February 1956, the Belgian economist, Louis Ameye, warns readers of the Brussels daily newspaper Le Soir against the proposed supranational European atomic organisation and, pointing to the special situation of Belgium resulting from its Congolese uranium, emphasises the need to establish a comprehensive common market in Europe.

On 9 March 1956, the Antwerp Catholic daily newspaper La Métropole reviews the final report from the Federation of Belgian Industries (FIB) on nuclear cooperation in Europe.

Am 9. März 1956 schildert die Tageszeitung La Libre Belgique die Mobilisierung der nationalen Privatwirtschaft für den Bau ziviler Kernkraftwerke und ruft das Land auf, eine führende Rolle in den laufenden Forschungen zu spielen.

In einem Artikel vom 10. März 1956 untersucht die belgische Tageszeitung La Nation belge den Vorschlag des Belgischen Industrieverbands FIB, der einen Kompromiss zwischen dem Euratom-Projekt und der von der Europäischen Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (OEEC) vorgeschlagenen Lösung darstellen soll.

On 21 March 1956, the Antwerp Catholic daily newspaper La Métropole criticises the attitude of the European Socialist parties which advocate the nationalisation of the nascent nuclear industry in Europe.

On 23 April 1956, Maurice Masoin, Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain (CUL) and Secretary-General of the International Institute for Public Finance, delivers a lecture to the Charleroi section of the ‘Mars et Mercure’ industrial and military group in which he outlines the implications of nuclear energy and of the establishment by the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) of a nuclear energy organisation, Euratom.

Le 15 mai 1956, le mensuel catholique belge La Revue nouvelle pointe les avantages et les difficultés de la mise en place d'une Communauté atomique européenne.

On 26 June 1956, reporting on the beginning, the same day in Brussels, of the work of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom, the Conservative daily newspaper La Nation Belge outlines the implications, particularly for France, of the establishment by the Six of an organisation to be responsible for nuclear power.

On 21 November 1956, officials of the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry draft an internal memorandum on the conditions for and possible consequences of full participation in Euratom.

A European workman carries out safety checks in a uranium mine.

While the Six are negotiating the establishment of a European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) in order to guarantee the security of Western Europe’s energy supplies, the uranium reserves, particularly those situated in the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, have already been mined since the 1930s.

On 16 July 1954, in anticipation of the forthcoming working meeting of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Jules Guéron, Director for General Programmes and Head of the Physical Chemistry Department, drafts a note in which he outlines the state of nuclear equipment in France and makes proposals for a second five-year plan to be drawn up as part of France’s nuclear effort. Jules Guéron was involved in the launch and development of the CEA, France’s dedicated nuclear energy organisation.

On 23 January 1956, in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro, the philosopher Raymond Aron considers the impact of the proposed European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) on German nuclear rearmament and the political implications of the supranational nature of Euratom.

On 2 July 1956, Jules Guéron, Director of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), draws up a note in which he emphasises the need for the future Member States of the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) to develop jointly prototypes of nuclear power stations in order to generate nuclear power and, in so doing, make Europe more independent in terms of energy.

On 5 July 1956, Francis Perrin, High Commissioner for Atomic Energy and member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), gives an address to the French National Assembly in which he outlines the implications of the use of atomic energy and refers to the issue of international cooperation in the field of nuclear power.

On 5 July 1956, as parliamentary debates are held in France on Euratom, Louis Armand, Commissioner of the French Government and Chairman of the Industrial Equipment Committee at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), emphasises the importance of European cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.

Am 13. Juli 1956 richtet das französische Außenministerium ein Telegramm an die französischen diplomatischen Vertretungen im Ausland, in dem es die Haltung der französischen Regierung zum Vorhaben der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft (EAG oder Euratom) darlegt.

Am 21. Dezember 1956 verfasst das Generalsekretariat des französischen Außenministeriums einen Vermerk, in dem es die Auswirkungen des Euratom-Projekts auf die Entwicklung ziviler und militärischer Atomprogramme in Frankreich und Europa untersucht.

On 4 January 1957, the French daily newspaper Le Monde publishes an article by French geographer Maurice Le Lannou, who is concerned at Europe’s increasing energy dependence. Between the coal era and the future nuclear age, oil is the fuel that is being widely used to run Western industry, and it needs to be imported in large quantities from abroad.

On 17 January 1957, the Force Ouvrière, the official weekly newspaper of the General Confederation of Labour-Workers’ Force (CGT-FO), explains why it supports the establishment of Euratom in the interests of the Europe of the Six and of France.

On 7 January 1956, the French daily newspaper Combat gives an account of the efforts made by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to catch up in the area of nuclear energy.

Im Juni 1956, zieht Franz Josef Strauß, Bundesminister für Atomfragen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD), die Bilanz der internationalen und europäischen Zusammenarbeit der BRD auf dem Gebiet der zivilen Nutzung der Kernenergie.

„Stärkungsmittel – … und jetzt noch eine Spalttablette!“ Am 17. Januar 1956 illustriert der Karikaturist Party in der deutschen Wochenzeitung Rheinischer Merkur die Wohltaten der Atomenergie, um das angeschlagene und schwache Europa wieder aufzupäppeln.

Auf einem Kolloquium vom 25. bis 28. März 1987 in Rom anlässlich des dreißigsten Jahrestages der Unterzeichnung der Verträge zur Gründung der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft und der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft (EAG oder Euratom) präsentiert Hans von der Groeben, ehemaliger Direktor der Unterabteilung für die Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS) im deutschen Wirtschaftsministerium (1952-1958) und ehemaliger Sprecher der deutschen Regierung im Koordinierungsausschuss des Besonderen Ministerrates der EGKS, die Haltung der politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kreise in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) gegenüber dem Euratom-Vorhaben.

On 7 March 1954, the Italian daily newspaper 24 ore comments on the American President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s proposal to establish an atomic bank open to all nations that wish to carry out research into the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

On 15 October 1955, the Italian daily newspaper Il Sole analyses the importance of the use of nuclear energy for civil purposes and sets out the proposals for this new source of energy.

Le 23 mars 1957, le bimestriel italien Relazioni internazionali publie un article de Francesco M. Dominedò, membre italien de l'Assemblée commune de la Communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier (CECA) et député du Parti de la Démocratie chrétienne, qui souligne l'importance de l'énergie nucléaire pour l'Europe occidentale et en particulier pour l'Italie.

In February 1956, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe (SMUSE) expresses the determination of the workers and Socialist unions of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) to support Euratom.

In 1956, the European Movement publishes a brochure on the issues and debates surrounding the peaceful use of nuclear energy for the countries of Western Europe.

From 27 to 29 April 1956, with the help of the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe (SMUSE), the European Congress of Labour — attended by Paul-Henri Spaak, Sicco Mansholt, Guy Mollet and Jean Monnet — holds a meeting in Paris, at the end of which it adopts a resolution on the objectives of Euratom and the conditions for its establishment.

On 15 and 16 November 1956, in Brussels, the European Trade Union Committee for Atomic Energy adopts a resolution in which it emphasises the importance of rapidly developing the use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes and the involvement of the trade unions in the future institutions of the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).

On 30 January 1957, the free trade unions of the European Community outline to the ministers of the future European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) their fears and expectations concerning the draft treaty establishing Euratom.

Das europäische Kulturzentrum, das aus der Europäischen Bewegung hervorgegangen ist, veröffentlicht 1957 eine Broschüre, in der es die Vorteile der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) und der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft (EAG oder Euratom) hervorhebt.

Auf einem Kolloquium vom 25. bis 28 März 1987 in Rom anlässlich des dreißigsten Jahrestages der Unterzeichnung der Verträge zur Gründung der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) und der Europäischen Atomgemeinschaft (EAG oder Euratom) legt Pierre Uri, ehemaliger Direktor der Abteilung „Generalwirtschaft“ in der Hohen Behörde der Europäischen Gemeinschaft für Kohle und Stahl (EGKS), den geopolitischen Kontext des Euratom-Vorhabens dar und erinnert an die Befürchtungen Jean Monnets hinsichtlich einer möglichen Überlagerung der Verhandlungen über den Gemeinsamen Markt und die Atomgemeinschaft.