Paul-Henri Charles Spaak Biography

Represents Belgium at the Messina Conference and later chairs the committee on the common market.

Spaak attends the Messina Conference as the Six relaunch negotiations on a common market and atomic-energy community.

Chairs the committee charged with preparing proposals for a European common market and Euratom.

Spaak chairs the constituent meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee created to prepare proposals for a common market and Euratom.

Presents the Spaak Report recommending a common market and atomic energy community.

Spaak joins the Venice Conference, where the Six accept the Spaak Report as the basis for treaty negotiations.

Spaak represents Belgium at the Paris conference that resolves the final political obstacles before signature in Rome.

Presents the common market as a practical route to wider European integration.

Signs the Euratom Treaty for Belgium at the Rome ceremony.

Signs the Treaty of Rome for Belgium after chairing the committee that prepared the common-market proposals.

Signs the Treaty of Rome for Belgium after leading earlier work on the common market through the Spaak Committee.