This memoclip shows extracts from Romano Prodi's tenure as President of the European Commission, focusing on the relationship with the European Parliament. Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004, played a key role in the introduction of the euro and led the EU's largest expansion, welcoming ten new member states. His leadership was instrumental in promoting economic integration and strengthening the EU’s global influence, while his vision of a more united Europe helped shape the Union's political and economic future.

Brussels

Strasbourg

METSOLA, Roberta (EPP, MT, EP President)

Barcelona

President of the Commission

COX, Pat (ELDR, IE, Patrick)

PRODI, Romano (IT)

VON DER LEYEN, Ursula (DE, EC)

Memoclip: Romano PRODI, former President of the European Commission (1999-2004), and the European Parliament

Vote and election of Romano PRODI as President of the European Commission - MEPs voting, read-out of the votes, applauses (Strasbourg, France, 05/05/1999, 9 shots)

Extract from the debate on Conclusions of the Stockholm European Council meeting of 23 and 24 March 2001 (Strasbourg, France, 14/03/2001, 2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission, We want Europe to remain a fair and supportive society. We want our children and grandchildren to enjoy the same level of social security that we now take for granted. For this reason, we must modernize our welfare and pension systems, and make them sustainable, extending them over time. We need a strategy to consolidate Europe's long-term competitiveness without renouncing the social inclusion characteristic of our societies.

Extracts from the meeting between the representatives of National Parliaments of Member States, applicant countries and Romano PRODI, Presiden of the European Commission, Louis MICHEL, Belgian Minister for Foreign affaires, Giorgio NAPOLITANO (PSE, IT), chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and Guido PODESTA, (EPP-DE, IT) (Brussels, Belgium, 10/07/2001, 8 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission, We must prepare a convention that brings together European parliamentarians, national parliamentarians, representatives of the member states, of the candidate countries and the Commission. I place great hopes in these procedures, which, instead of exacerbating rivalries, will promote convergence.

Extract from the statements by Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission at the European Parliament following the 9/11 terrorists attacks in the United States (Brussels, Belgium, 12/09/2001, 2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission, With this criminal act, they wanted to launch an attack on all our common values and on freedom itself. It is an event so that nothing will be the same as before. Faced with this, we must therefore strongly testify our solidarity and friendship with the American people and government. European institutions and governments will work in close cooperation with our American friends, and with the other allies, in these dramatic moments and in the future.

Extract from the the statement by Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission at the European Parliament on the preparation of the Laeken European Council at the EP (Brussels, Belgium, 28/11/2001, 7 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission, The Commission's proposals contained in the White Paper aim to strengthen the democratic process and thus to strengthen the role of the European Parliament. In fact, I keep my point of view unchanged: the European Parliament is the central element of democratic legitimation, without which there can be no real support from European citizens.

Extracts from the inauguration in the presence of Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission and Pat COX, EP President of the new common office of the European Commission and European Parliament in Barcelona (Barcellona, Spain, 14/03/2002, 8 shots)

Arrival and roundtable from the extraordinary Conference of Presidents on the modernastion modernisation plan for clearer and better European legislation (Brussels, Belgium, 05/06/2002, 8 shots)

Extracts from the Conference of Presidents on the EC's declaration on the European Council (Brussels, Belgium, 21/01/2004, 4 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Romano PRODI, President of the European Commission, The basic objective is to give a new impetus to investments using the Union's financial and political resources as a fuel for private capital, to stimulate private capital and direct it to priority development sectors identified by the strategy. A favorable environment must be created.

Extracts from the arrival of Romano PRODI at the remembrance ceromony for former Chancellor Helmut KOHL (Strasbourg, France, 01/07/2017, 6 shots)

Extract from the speech of Romano PRODI, at the ceromony for 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement (Strasbourg, France, 24/04/2024, 18 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Romano PRODI, former President of the European Commission, I remember with great emotion talking with a new member, she was joining the European Union from a small state, and said "we want to enter into Europe because Europe is a union of minorities". And it's wonderful to see that the president of the Commission is from the biggest European country and the president of the Parliament is from the smallest European country. And I think that that is wonderfully symbolic. I mean, it's not some kind of abstract fact that is the reality of Europe.