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This Inventory of institutional sources consulted is an output of the major research project dedicated to the European vocation and achievements of Pierre Werner, a former Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, unanimously recognised as one of the architects of Economic and Monetary Union.

« Internet, une histoire belge ? » Cette affiche accueille le visiteur dans le hall du Mundaneum, au cœur de Mons, ville belge qui se prépare à devenir capitale européenne de la culture en 2015. Le slogan est l’un des nombreux signes de l’actuelle volonté de réappropria- tion de l’histoire de l’Internet par les Européens, visant à sortir d’une vision trop centrée sur les États-Unis. Surtout, il inscrit d’emblée le projet d’Henri La Fontaine et Paul Otlet dans la lignée des utopies et travaux que le monde numérique intègre aujourd’hui à sa généalogie.

This Bibliography is part of the major research project dedicated to the European vocation and achievements of Pierre Werner, a former Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, unanimously recognised as one of the architects of Economic and Monetary Union. The first stage of the research was particularly focused on the plan for the establishment by stages of an economic and monetary union (more widely known as the Werner Report or the Werner Plan), drawn up by a group of experts chaired by Pierre Werner and officially presented on 8 October 1970 in Luxembourg.

The history of the National Telecommunications Network for Technology, Education and Research, born in 1993, had its roots in the 1980s, when scientific actors started to build networks in France, in a simultaneous but still dispersed way. From the beginning, Renater was original: local initiatives preceded the implementation of a national infrastructure that became part of world exchanges.

Économiste et juriste, homme politique et diplomate, acteur de marque de la construction européenne et notamment de l’intégration monétaire, participant à l’édification du Luxembourg contemporain, membre des milieux académiques, très présent dans les réseaux économiques européens et outre-Atlantique et intellectuel catholique militant, Pierre Werner (29 décembre 1913 – 24 juin 2002) a traversé le XXe siècle.

This article is part of the Forum special issue about the relations between Luxembourg and the United States. In this context, 'Says Who?' analyses the complex reception of the work of Luxembourg born American artist and curator, Edward Steichen, in his native country.