MAX KOHNSTAMM ARCHIVES

The Rutten Document is a report entitled, "The Dutch contribution to the creation of the Common Market with special emphasis on the period March-June 1955". It was based on the archival souces made available by the DGES, (a department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, and drawn up by a Ministerial team.) It deals with the commencement of European integration and the failure of EDC up to the Conference of Messina. Along with the report there are 11 of the most important archival documents from the era, which provided the source material for the report. The report deals with the launching of the Beyen Plan, the Benelux memorandum, the Conference of Messina and Dutch input after Messina.

Dutch

Textual

The originals are held in various Archives in Europe and in the USA

CEM/JMAS

Photocopying allowed