The Spaak method of

negotiation Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more parties to resolve points of difference, gain an advantage for an individual or Collective bargaining, collective, or craft outcomes to satisfy various interests. The parties aspire to agree on m ...

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 who thrice served as the prime minister of Belgium and later as the second secretary general of NATO. Nicknam ...

, a Belgian politician, who applied this method at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom in 1956 at Val Duchesse castle in preparing for the

Treaties of Rome The Treaty of Rome, or EEC Treaty (officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community), brought about the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC), the best known of the European Communities (EC). The treaty was signe ...

in 1957. During the negotiations leading to the conference at Val Duchesse, most of the real negotiations took place prior to the actual Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) within the Spaak Committee 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

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

. Within this negotiating method, the preparatory committee had a strong initiating and brokerage role in the phase preceding the conference, while the actual Intergovernmental Conference only dealt with negotiating small changes in the original agenda prepared by the preparatory committee. This method was also applied to the preparation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) by the

Delors Committee The Delors Committee, formally known as the Committee for the Study of Economic and Monetary Union, was an ''ad hoc'' committee chaired by European Commission President Jacques Delors in 1988–1989. It was set up in June 1988 upon a mandate fro ...

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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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