@article{2018:danescu:a_pragmati,
title = {A Pragmatic Visionary Through a Century of Change – Pierre Werner},
year = {2018},
note = {As Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Luxembourg over several
decades, Pierre Werner shaped the future of his country and was one of
the rare statesmen to play a part in the progress of European
integration until the mid-1980s. He played a major role in regional
integration (BLEU, Benelux) and in EEC policy-making and gained a
strong reputation for forging a political consensus between larger
powers (Germany and France) and between diametrically opposed
positions (‘economists’ vs ‘monetarists’). In this way he
succeeded in defending Luxembourg’s vital interests, from the
financial centre to the seats of the European institutions. Werner was
involved in the major ideological debates of the time. Although
initially in favour of a monetary approach, he was one of the first to
develop arguments for a symmetrical economic and monetary union. The
careful balance he imagined reappeared in the Werner Report of 1970 -
a precursor to a full EMU in the EU. Based on the Werner family
archives, and on an extensive selection of original interviews and
published works, this paper examines Pierre Werner’s thinking and
political action and his vital input to the European monetary
integration.},
journal = {JEIH Journal of European Integration History},
pages = {9--30},
author = {DANESCU, Elena},
volume = {24},
number = {1}
}