We thank you for you loyalty in 2015 and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

MyPublications is the first instalment of the Digital Toolbox on CVCE.eu. The Digital Toolbox enables users to re-use or customise the resources of CVCE.eu for their own purposes.

On 4 December 2015, Viviane Reding, a Member of the European Parliament, was invited by the CVCE to record the third part of her interview.

A paper by Elena Danescu, one of the researchers at the CVCE, has been published in the December issue of The Journal of European Economic History.

On 7 December 2015, Frédéric Allemand will be speaking at a conference on the topic ‘Saving the euro and saving Greece’ at the University of Luxembourg.

The second part of the interview with Viviane Reding, carried out by the CVCE in Sanem on 11 September 2015, has recently been published.

On 24 November 2015, the CVCE led a first training session at the Training Institute of the Ministry of Education — eduPôle Walferdange — entitled ‘Teaching about Europe: digital resources and tools’, geared towards teachers in Luxembourg.

On 16 and 23 November 2015, Dr Elena Danescu led a joint seminar for the Master’s in Contemporary European History and the Master’s in European Governance at the University of Luxembourg on Economic and Monetary Union.

In connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project and the ‘Oral history of European integration’ programme, Astrid Lulling gave an interview to the CVCE on 24 November 2015.

The European Parliamentary Research Service, the Historical Archives of the European Parliament, the European Parliament Information Office in Luxembourg and the CVCE invite you to the ‘History of the EU’ round table, which will focus on ‘The impact of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) on Luxembourg and the European integration process’.

The interview with Sir Brian Unwin conducted by the CVCE in London on 20 May 2015 has recently been published.

For the CeCiL’s afterwork event this November, the Cercle Cité and the CVCE invite you to come along and take part in a quiz about Europe on 25 November 2015 to mark the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Susana Muñoz, Head of European Integration Studies, took part in the Jean Monnet Conference 2015 with her contribution entitled ‘Digital innovation as a tool for education in fundamental European values’.

The European Legal Studies Department at the College of Europe has recently published a new issue of its ‘Cahiers juridiques’ featuring an article by Frédéric Allemand, European Studies Coordinator at the CVCE.

A new interview with Adrien Meisch is now available in the ‘Oral history of European integration’ collection.

On 11 November 2015, Professor Philippe Maystadt, Belgian Minister of State and President of the European Investment Bank from 2000 to 2011, granted an interview to the CVCE.

The CVCE recently participated in the 2015 TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting on the theme ‘Connect — Animate — Innovate’, which took place in Lyon from 28 to 31 October.

The CVCE to start a new research project on advanced visualisation techniques with the Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology and French partners.

In connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project and the ‘Oral history of European integration’ programme, Professor Bernard Snoy et d’Oppuers granted an interview to the CVCE on 23 October.

On 9 October in Blois, Henriette Heimbach presented the CVCE’s pilot project entitled ‘A new reading of primary sources via the digital analysis of social networks. The Werner Committee and the debates on European economic and monetary integration’ at the ‘Historians and digital technologies’ study day organised by the Humanistica association.

In connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ and ‘Histora’ research projects, Michel Camdessus, Honorary Governor of the Banque de France and Managing Director of the IMF for 13 years, gave an interview to the CVCE on 8 October.

The CVCE took part in the ‘Rendez-vous de l’histoire’ event in Blois, France, from 8 to 11 October 2015, which this year was on the theme of ‘Empires’.

From 8 to 11 October 2015, the CVCE will be taking part in the ‘Rendez-vous de l’histoire’ event in Blois, France, which this year is on the theme of ‘Empires’.

On 28 September 2015, François Klein, Scientific Collaborator at the CVCE, gave a presentation at the 46th annual conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) in Paris entitled ‘Oral sources and digital innovation: Oral history of European integration on CVCE.eu’.

On 22 and 23 September, CVCE scientific collaborator Daniele Guido took part in the workshop ‘Mapping complexity in the social sciences’, held at Montclair State University (Montclair, New Jersey, United States), with Donato Ricci, a researcher and Lead Designer at the Medialab Sciences Po in Paris.

On 21 September 2015, in Luxembourg City, Elena Danescu and Marco Gabellini (CVCE) led a training seminar at the Luxembourg National Institute of Public Administration (INAP) on the topic ‘Luxembourg and the European integration process, 1945–2015’.

The publisher P.I.E. Peter Lang has recently published the book ‘Pierre Werner et l’Europe: pensée, action, enseignements/ Pierre Werner and Europe: His Approach, Action and Legacy’, edited by Elena Danescu and Susana Muñoz.

On 11 September 2015, Viviane Reding, a Member of the European Parliament, was invited to the CVCE to give a second interview, following on from the first interview she gave in May 2015.

All participants in the CVCE Europa Quiz who clocked up at least 200 points during the month of August were entered into a draw to decide the winners of the monthly challenge.

To coincide with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the CVCE has recently published a series of interviews with former Luxembourg ambassadors in which they speak about the milestones in their diplomatic careers and the development of Luxembourg diplomacy within the European Union.

The interview with Viviane Reding, conducted by the CVCE in Sanem on 22 May 2015, has recently been published and can be consulted here.

Egon Bahr, a key figure in the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) who worked closely with Willy Brandt, passed away during the night of 19 to 20 August 2015.

In connection with the cooperation between RTL and the CVCE, we have given the European history pages on the RTL.lu website a makeover.

This year, the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School ran eight workshops including one on data curation, analysis, access and reuse, in which Cécile Duval, Scientific Collaborator in the CVCE’s Digital Humanities Lab, took part.

On Friday 3 July 2015, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister of State, Étienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Economy, and Lydie Polfer, Mayor of the City of Luxembourg, officially launched the CVCE Europa Quiz.

The interview with Jean Mischo conducted by the CVCE in Sanem has recently been published and can be consulted here.

The CVCE and Sapienza University of Rome have recently signed a cultural and scientific cooperation agreement, which provides for cooperation in the fields of European economic history, European integration policy, EU institutional law and geopolitics.

From 11 to 13 June 2015, the University of Turin hosted the 12th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP).

On 8–9 June 2015, the Digital Humanities Lab at the CVCE was very happy to participate in the second DH Benelux Conference hosted by the University of Antwerp.

In connection with the European project SMILE, ‘Sharing Messina Ideal a Lesson for all Europe’, an academic meeting about the 1955 Messina Conference was held on 5 June 2015 in Messina.

From 3 to 6 June 2015, the CVCE and its partners in the European project SMILE — ‘Sharing Messina Ideal a Lesson for all Europe’ were involved in the conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1955 Messina Conference: ‘Messina — Europa — Mediterraneo’.

On 5 June 2015, the Luxembourg Government proposed the establishment of a high-level interdisciplinary centre for contemporary history at the University of Luxembourg.

On 22 May, Viviane Reding, a Member of the European Parliament, was invited to the CVCE to give an interview in connection with both the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project and the project for the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2015.

On 19 May 2015, the CVCE awarded a prize to the winner of the competition organised in connection with the European project SMILE, Sharing Messina Ideal a Lesson for all Europe, which was set up to mark the 60th anniversary of the Messina Conference in June 1955.

On 20 May 2015, in connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project and the Oral history of European integration programme, the CVCE will be conducting an interview with Sir Brian Unwin.

Dr Susana Muñoz, Head of European Integration Studies at the CVCE, led a seminar at the University of Luxembourg on 11 May 2015 entitled ‘The accession of Portugal: a less complex case than that of Spain?’

Baron Alexandre Lamfalussy passed away on Saturday 9 May 2015 at the age of 86.

On 23 March 2015, Paolo Tedeschi, Assistant Professor in Economic History in the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Visiting Researcher at the CVCE, gave a lecture entitled ‘A new European currency — a tool to strengthen or destroy the European Union? The consequences of an ill-informed public’.

The Director of the CVCE, Marianne Backes, and Susana Muñoz, Head of European Integration Studies, recently took part in the 13th International Conference of Editors of Diplomatic Documents, which ran from 15 to 17 April 2015 at the George Marshall Conference Center at the US Department of State in Washington, DC.

The European institutions are holding their traditional open days on 2 May in Strasbourg and 9 May in Brussels.

The interview with Francis Gutmann, conducted by the CVCE on 10 September 2014 in Paris, has just been published in the ‘Oral history’ section of the CVCE website.

From 19 to 21 March 2015, the National Bank of Belgium hosted the ‘Architects of the euro’ workshop. This workshop will serve as the basis for an academic publication by the British Academy, due to be released in 2016.

The CVCE is pleased to invite you to the lecture ‘A new European currency —a tool to strengthen or destroy the European Union? The consequences of an ill-informed public’ given by Paolo Tedeschi, Assistant Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Visiting Researcher at the CVCE.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Messina Conference, the CVCE and its partners in the SMILE European project are launching a competition to encourage young people to find out more about the past, present and future of the European integration process and to rediscover how Europe can meet their needs and expectations.

On 12 February 2015, Lars Wieneke, Head of the Information and Technology Department at the CVCE, presented the CVCE’s new histoGraph application at the ‘Public History and the media’ workshop held at the European University Institute in Florence.

On 15 and 16 January 2015, Susana Muñoz and Marco Gabellini (CVCE) attended the launch meeting of the S.M.I.L.E. project. S.M.I.L.E. — Sharing Messina Ideal a Lesson for all Europe — is a European partnership supported by the European Commission’s ‘Europe for Citizens’ Programme.

On 9 and 16 December 2014, Susana Muñoz, Head of European Integration Studies at the CVCE, spoke at the ‘Economic and social history of European integration’ seminar cycle at the University of Luxembourg.

Elena Danescu, a Researcher at the CVCE, recently took part in the XIII Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE), which was held from 11 to 13 December 2014 at the University of Pisa.

On 19 December 2014, the CVCE and the Werner family renewed their cooperation by signing a rider to the cooperation and confidentiality agreement that provides for the exploitation of the Pierre Werner family archives over the next four years.