The plenary session will open with a short ceremony honouring the life and legacy of former Commission President Jacques Delors, who passed away on 27 December 2023.
Delors was President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995 and was a crucial figure in the creation of the EU’s single market and the Economic and Monetary Union.
EP President Roberta Metsola said Jacques Delors was “a giant. A public servant. A visionary. He believed in a Europe built on competition that stimulates, cooperation that strengthens, and solidarity that unites. His vision guides us still today. We honour his memory by keeping his legacy alive.”
During the short ceremony, one speaker for each political group will take the floor.

Plenary session - Commemoration of Jacques Delors

Former Members Association - Annual Memorial Service

EP Plenary session - Commemoration of Jacques Delors

EP Plenary session.- Commemoration of Jacques Delors

European flags at half-mast in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels and Strasbourg in honour of former European Commission President Jacques Delors

EU flags at half mast at the EP building in Brussels following the death of Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission

EC President meets with a delegation of the Knesset in Strasbourg in December 1985

Giulio ANDREOTTI, Jacques DELORS, Pierre PFLIMLIN

Giulio ANDREOTTI, Jacques DELORS and Pierre PFLIMLIN in Strasbourg in January 1985. Italian Presidency of the EU

Press Conference of Jacques DELORS - EC President at the EP in Strasbourg in January 1985.

Pierre PFLIMLIN - EP President meets with Jacques DELORS - EC President at the EP in Strasbourg in January 1985

Jacques DELORS doing a speech about his appointment as European Commission President at the European Parliament of Strasbourg in January 1985.

Jacques DELORS - EC President, Dominique BAUDIS

Jacques DELORS - EC President meets with a guest at the EP in Strasbourg in July 1986

Meeting between the European Commission and Marcelino OREJA secretary general of the council of europe

Plenary session in Strasbourg in november 1988

Willy DE CLERCQ, Jacques DELORS, Hans Dietrich GENSCHER

European Council Meeting at the European Parliament in Luxembourg

Enrique BARON CRESPO, Helmut KOHL, Lothar DE MAIZIERE, Charles HAUGHEY and Jacques DELORS

Official visit of Prime minister of DDR and Chancellor of Germany at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Gianni DE MICHELIS, Enrique BARON CRESPO, Jacques DELORS

Meeting with Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Jean DODELINGER; Henning CHRISTOPHERSEN; Jacques DELORS

Inter-governmental Preparatory Conference on Economic and Monetary Union at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

EC President meets with Japanese Delegation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Egon KLEPSCH, Jacques DELORS, Simone VEIL, Pierre PFLIMLIN, Lord PLUMB

40th anniversary of the foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - Formal sitting

Leo TINDEMANS, President of the Council, Sir Henry PLUMB, EP President and Jacques DELORS, President of the European Commission in Strasbourg on January 1987.

Jacques SANTER, President-elect of the EC, Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor, Jacques DELORS, President of the EC, and Klaus KINKEL, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, give a joint press conference after the extraordinary meeting of the European Council on 15 July 1994 in Brussels. Jacques SANTER, Luxembourgish Prime Minister, is chosen to succeed Jacques DELORS as President of the European Commission.

Santer Commission: joint press conference by Jacques SANTER, President-elect of the EC, Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor, Jacques DELORS, President of the EC, and Klaus KINKEL, after the extraordinary meeting of the European Council, 15/07/1994

Some actors in the European Community have received a medal for their help in the German reunification and the integration of East Germany into the community, including Gerardo FERNANDEZ-ALBOR, President of the temporary Committee on the impact of the German reunification on th European Community and Alan John DONNELLY, Rapporteur of this Committee.

Medal presentation to Gerardo FERNANDEZ-ALBOR and Alan John DONNELLY, the President and the Rapporteur of the temporary Committee for German reunification

This Memoclip shows the visit of Winnie MANDELA in June 1990 to the European Parliament on the occasion of the address of her husband Nelson MANDELA, leader of the ANC to the MEPs few months after his release.

Memoclip: Winnie MANDELA at the European Parliament

Debate on the preparation of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Conference convened for December on economic and monetary union. Discussion on the report by Fernand HERMAN with Alman METTEN, Bouke BEUMER, François-Xavier DE DONNEA,George Benjamin PATTERSON, Brigitte ERNST DE LA GRAETE and Jacques DELORS, EC President followed the the final vote on the report.

Preparation of the Intergovernmental Conference to create the economic and monetary union: extracts from the debate

General views of Dublin. European Council: arrivals of Jacques SANTER, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Hans VAN DEN BROEK, Minister of foreign affairs of the Netherlands, Ruud LUBBERS, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Gianni De MICHELIS, Minister for foreign affairs of Italy, Antonis SAMARAS, Minister for foreign affairs of Greece, Jacques DELORS, EC President, Giulio ANDREOTTI, Prime Minister of Italy, Wilfried MARTENS, Prime Minister of Belgium, Poul SCHLUTER, Prime Minister of Denmark, Felipe GONZALEZ, President of Spain, Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President, Helmut KOHL, Chancellor of Germany, François MITTERRAND, Prime Minister of France Extracts from the press conference by Helmut KOHL

European Council of Dublin dedicated to German reunification

The EP has made a real political work in the context of German unification. Indeed, the EP was the first EU institution to speak about a possible German unification. In the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the EC President, Jacques DELORS came to speak in formal sitting in Strasbourg on 22 November 1989, in the presence of Helmut KOHL, German Chancellor and François MITTERRAND, President of the French Republicand President-in-office of the European Council.

Address by Jacques DELORS, EC President, in formal sitting, on the situation in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall (Strasbourg, 22/11/1989)

At a ceremony held in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 12 June 1986, Pierre PFLIMLIN, EP President, Hans van den BROEK, Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs and President-in-Office of the Council, and Jacques DELORS, President of the European Commission, signed the Declaration against racism and xenophobia, just after the vote session in the plenary. The initiative is a response to the public indignation aroused by the xenophobic attacks on migrant workers and their families which had taken place in a number of Member States.

Vote and signing ceremony of the joint Declaration against racism and xenophobia

Pierre PFLIMLIN, EP President, gives a speech during the inaugural ceremony of the European flag. For the first time, the European flag is hoisted in the esplanade of the European Commission 's Berlaymont building, in the presence of Jacques DELORS, President of the EC.

Inauguration of the European flag in front of the EC Berlaymont building

Jacques DELORS, President-elect of the Commission, attends the vote on his new Commission in plenary session in Strasbourg, after having given a speech before the hemicycle. Several MEPs make a speech during the session.

Delors Commission: vote on the inauguration of the new Delors Commission

Jacques DELORS, President-elect of the Commission, gives a speech in the plenary session in Strasbourg before the vote on the new inauguration of the new Commission.

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