Brexit - Farewell ceremony for departing British MEPs

On 20 September, the Bundestag and the House of the people approve of the Unification Treaty, signed in East Berlin on August 31 September 20 by a majority of two thirds. October 1, Germany, who left the Warsaw Pact, became fully sovereign. The quadripartite Allied powers on Berlin are suspended as of October 3. That same day, October 3 at midnight, the German anthem sounded while the German flag was raised in front of the Reichstag in Berlin. The entire Europe celebrates the German reunification.

Memoclip: German reunification in Berlin (28-04/10/1990)

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

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)

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

The Single European Act (SEA) sought to revise the Treaties of Rome setting up the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community. On 17 February 1986, representatives from 9 Member States (Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) signed the Single Act during an official ceremony in Luxembourg. Some days after representatives from Denmark, Greece, and Italy signed the Single act on 28 February 1986 during a ceremony in The Hague. The SEA applied on 1 July 1987.

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