The Spaak method of

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is named after

Paul-Henri Spaak Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (; 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman. Along with Robert Schuman, Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer he was a leader in the formation of the ...

, a

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politician, who applied this method at the

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in 1956 at

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castle in preparing for the

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in 1957. During the negotiations leading to the conference at Val Duchesse, most of the real negotiations took place prior to the actual

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(IGC) within the

Spaak Committee The Spaak Committee was an Intergovernmental Committee set up by the Foreign Ministers of the six Member States of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as a result of the Messina Conference of 1955. The Spaak Committee started its work on ...

that was charged with setting the agenda for the Val Duchesse conference. The final report of the committee then formed the basis for the final treaty which was then approved in

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. Within this negotiating method, the preparatory committee has a strong initiating and brokerage role in the phase preceding the conference, while the actual Intergovernmental Conference only deals with negotiating small changes in the original agenda prepared by the preparatory committee. This method was also applied to the preparation of the

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(EMU) by the Delors Committee.

References

* {{Cite journal , first=Pierre-Henri , last=Laurent , title=Paul-Henri Spaak and the Diplomatic Origins of the Common Market, 1955–1956 , journal=Political Science Quarterly , volume=85 , number=3 , date=September 1970 , pages=373–396 , jstor=2147876 , doi=10.2307/2147876

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50th anniversary of the Val Duchesse negotiations of the Rome Treaties
(1956–2006)
Towards a new method of constitutional bargaining?
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