EP Plenary session - Formal Sitting - Address by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal

EP Plenary session - Formal sitting - address by Volodymyr ZELENSKYY, Ukrainian President

EP Plenary session - Formal sitting - address by Volodymyr ZELENSKYY, Ukrainian President.

Václav HAVEL, President of the Czech Republic, visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and met Egon A. KLEPSCH, EP President. He also addressed the Members in plenary during a formal sitting. This transcription is a result of an authomatic process. Please check against delivery.

Address by Václav HAVEL, President of the Czech Republic: formal sitting

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 1993 Award ceremony for Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sakharov Prize 1993: Award ceremony Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Visit of Yitzhack RABIN, Israelian Prime Minister to the European Parliament: arrival, meeting with Egon KLEPSCH, EP President and extracts from the address

Recording of the Award ceremony Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo in 1992. The European Parliament recognised Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo with the Sakharov Prize in 1992. Hebe de Bonafini, who was elected leader of the undivided Madres in 1979, and was still leading the association, accepted the Sakharov Prize award on behalf of the mothers' children 'who were the first to struggle for freedom'.

Sakharov Prize 1992: Award ceremony Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo - Argentina

Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the European Parliament in Strasbourg : arrival at the airport of Strabourg with Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrival at the European Parliament, welcome by Egon Klepsch, EP President, formal sitting, address, diner at the town hall of Strasbourg, departure.

Visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the European Parliament in Strasbourg

This recording shows the Sakharov Prize 1990 Award ceremony to Aung San Suu Kyi (in absentia), Burma/Myanmar. AUNG SAN SUU KYI's leadership of Myanmar/Burma's pro-democracy struggle was recognised by the Sakharov Prize in 1990. Husband Michael ARIS and son Kim received the prize.

Sakharov Prize 1990: Award ceremony Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma/Myanmar (in absentia)

Nelson MANDELA, leader of the African National Congress and laureate of the 1988 Sakharov Prize, adresses the members of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, during the plenary session of June 1990. Afterwards, he gives a press conference in the presence of Winnie Mandela, his wife.

Address by Nelson MANDELA, Leader of the African National Congress to the European Parliament, and press conference: extracts

Nelson MANDELA, leader of the African National Congress and laureate of the 1988 Sakharov Prize, adresses the members of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, during the plenary session of June 1990.

Address by Nelson MANDELA, Leader of the African National Congress, to the European Parliament

Recording of the Sakharov Prize 1989 Award ceremony for Alexander Dubček After the 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia, Dubček was elected chair of the federal assembly from 1989 to 1992. Addressing the European Parliament in January 1990 as he received his Sakharov Prize, Dubček noted that "even during the most difficult moments of their history, the nations which make up my country have never ceased to feel that they are part of humanity's great struggle for freedom' and from the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution, 'the ideals of freedom, sovereignty and social justice remained alive".

Sakharov Prize 1989: Award ceremony Alexander Dubček - 1989, Slovakia

Debate on the situation in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall during the plenary session of November 1989 in Strasbourg. Opening remarks by Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President and extracts of the statements by François MITTERRAND, President of the French Republic and Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor.

Addresses by Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor and François MITTERRAND, President of the French Republic (22 November 1989): extracts from the statements

Anatoli Marchenko (posthumously, represented by his widow,Larisa BOGORAZ) - 1988, Russia: His widow, Larissa Bogoraz, herself an activist and a Sakharov Prize nominee, received the prize on his behalf, which was awarded to him posthumously in 1988, the year the European Parliament created the Sakharov Prize. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (in absentia, represented by his grand son, Mandla MANDELA) - 1988, South Africa: He was the first, along with Soviet dissident Anatoly Marchenko, to be awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize in 1988. At the time he was still being kept under house arrest by South Africa's apartheid regime, which imprisoned him for 27 years for his fight against racism.

Sakharov Prize 1988: Award ceremony Anatoli Marchenko (posthumously) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (in absentia)

BAUDOUIN I, King of the Belgians, addresses MEPs at a formal sitting at the EP in Strasbourg.

Address by BAUDOUIN I, King of the Belgians: extracts

Extracts from the formal sitting in honnor of Konstatinos KARAMANLIS, President of the Hellenic republic during the plenary session in Strasbourg. Welcome words by Pieter DANKERT, EP President and speech by Konstatinos KARAMANLIS.

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