Paul Collowald (24 June 1923 â 8 July 2025) was a French civil servant and journalist.
Born in Wissembourg on 24 June 1923, Collowald made his professional debut in 1946 with the newspaper '. In 1952, he joined Le Monde as its Strasbourg correspondent for European and regional affairs. The city had become the seat of the Council of Europe, the European Coal and Steel Community, the Treaty establishing the European Defence Community, and the European Political Community. His career in the European sphere began in 1958 in Luxembourg with the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom. The following year, he moved to Brussels at the request of Robert Marjolin, Vice-President of the Hallstein Commission, to work as his spokesperson. In 1973, he became director-general of the European Commission's Directorate for Information. He worked for the Commission for 25 years before moving to the European Parliament, working as President Pierre Pflimlin's cabinet director.
Collowald died in the Brussels region on 8 July 2025, at the age of 102.