On 6 March 2013, in connection with the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project, the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) held a conference entitled EMU at the crossroads in Luxembourg City. Speakers at the conference were Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg Prime Minister and outgoing President of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Governor of the Banque de France and former President of the European Central Bank, René Leboutte, Chairman of the CVCE’s Committee of Experts, Susana Muñoz, Head of the CVCE’s European Integration Studies Department and member of the Management Committee, and Elena Danescu, Researcher at the CVCE and coordinator of the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project.

At the conference EMU at the crossroads held in Luxembourg City on 6 March 2013, Elena Danescu, Researcher at the CVCE and coordinator of the ‘Pierre Werner and Europe’ research project, presents the research corpus ‘A rereading of the Werner Report of 8 October 1970 in the light of the Pierre Werner family archives’.

At the conference EMU at the crossroads held in Luxembourg City on 6 March 2013, Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Governor of the Banque de France and former President of the European Central Bank, gives an address entitled ‘The road to an economic and budgetary federation in Europe’.

At the conference EMU at the crossroads held in Luxembourg City on 6 March 2013, Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and outgoing President of the Eurogroup, gives an address entitled ‘Europe beyond the euro’.

At the conference EMU at the crossroads held in Luxembourg City on 6 March 2013, Jacques Santer, Honorary Minister of State, former President of the European Commission and Chairman of the Board of the European Merit Foundation, and Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Merit Foundation, present the Collar of European Merit to Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Governor of the Banque de France and former President of the European Central Bank.

At the conference EMU at the crossroads held in Luxembourg City on 6 March 2013, Jacques Santer, Honorary Minister of State, former President of the European Commission and Chairman of the Board of the European Merit Foundation, and Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Merit Foundation, present the Collar of European Merit to Jean-Claude Trichet, Honorary Governor of the Banque de France and former President of the European Central Bank.