On 2 June 1955, commenting on the meeting attended by the Foreign Ministers of the Six in Messina, the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit welcomes the rapprochement between Ludwig Erhard, Minister for Economic Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), and Franz Etzel, Vice-President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), as regards the direction in which the revival of European integration should be led.