Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING, chair of the Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group (LDR) of the European Parliament, addresses Jacques DELORS, President of the European Commission, during an EP plenary session, with the group's assessment of the Commission's plans for the year 1990. The LDR demands more ambitious policy to advance European integration.

Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING intervention in plenary session debate - European Commission's programme for 1990

Pope John Paul II addresses MEPs in the Strasbourg hemicycle of the European Parliament during a formal sitting in plenary.

Address by Pope John Paul II to the European Parliament

On January 20, 1987, Lord Henry PLUMB is elected as EP President at the EP in Strasbourg. Announcements of the results, congratulation and extracts from the speech of Lord Henry PLUMB, newly elected EP President

Election of Lord Henry PLUMB as EP President

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.

Delors Commission: speech by Jacques DELORS, President-elect of the European Commission before the vote on the inauguration of the new Commission

The Schuman Declaration was presented by French Foreign minister Robert Schuman on 9 May 1950 in Paris . "Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity". It proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community, whose members would pool coal and steel production. The ECSC was an organisation of six European countries created to regulate their industrial production under a centralised authority. It was formally established in 1951 by the Treaty of Paris, signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. The ECSC started the process of formal integration which ultimately led to the European Union.

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