Jose CEPEDA in the EP in Brussels

Susanna CECCARDI in the EP in Strasbourg

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

IMCO

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

EMPL

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

ITRE

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

LIBE

Committee on Fisheries

PECH

Press conference: Sophie AUCONIE and Philippe LAMBERTS - ECON rapporteurs

Committee on Foreign Affairs

AFET

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

AGRI

Committee on Budgets

BUDG

Committee on Legal Affairs

JURI

Committee on Transport and Tourism

TRAN

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

ECON

Danish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Welcome village opening

German MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Finnish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

French MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Hungarian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Greek MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Belgian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Irish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Dutch MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Polish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Slovakian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

MEP Kenneth D. COLLINS meets with visitors

EP photo

Armand de DECKER, Klaus HANSCH - EP President,

EP President - Klaus HANSCH meets with president of the council of the Brussels-Capital Region

Deployment of police forces following the Bomb alert in EP building in Brussels

Informal meeting between Martin SCHULZ - EP President, Angela MERKEL - German Chancellor and Francois HOLLANDE - French President

Ongoing construction works at the LOW building in Strasbourg

Klaus HANSCH EP President, Guntis ULMANIS

Klaus HANSCH EP President meets with  Guntis ULMANIS

Meeting of the EP-Estonia delegation

Caroline JACKSON, Phillip WHITEHEAD, Kenneth D. COLLINS, Dagmar ROTH-BEHRENDT, Ulla SANDBAEK, David BOWE,

Group picture

Box with the petitions against the Chechen people extermination

Meeting in Brussels

MEPs with a guests

Gerhard schroeder, Klaus HANSCH EP President

Portrait of Gerhard SCHROEDER and Klaus HANSCH EP President int front of Flags

MEPs with a guest

Group picture with Klaus HANSCH EP President

MEP with a guest in front of flags

Portrait of Christine BARTHET MAYER in front of Flags

Interview or Klaus HANSCH EP President

The European parliament debate during the May 1990 session in Strasbourg on a motion condemning the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Carpentras in France. Statement by Yves GALLAND, Karel DILLEN, Jean-Thomas NORDMANN and Djia TAZDAIT.

Desecration of a Jewish cemetery in the French town of Carpentras: extracts from the debate

Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President, adresses the press on the coming start of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on Political Union. The press briefing followed the opening preparatory meeting, bringing together all of the community institutions to pave the way for the Intergovernmental Conference. Foreign ministers of the 12, the president and members of the European Commission and an all party delegation from the European Parliament met together in an initial attempt to agree ground rules and guidelines for the conference.

Press conference by Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President on the lauch of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on Political Union

Debate during the plenary session of May 1990 on the possible resumption of the diplomatic relations with Vietnam. Statements by Benjamin VISSER, rapporteur, Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN, for the Council of the Ministers, Claude CHEYSSON and Jean-Thomas NORDMANN.

Resumption of the diplomatic relations with Vietnam: extracts from the debate

Debate on fifth Lome convention, the community's main way of helping 68 African, Caribbean and Pacific developing countries which will provide 12 billion Ecu. Under the single European Act, Parliament's approval is not necessary. Statements by Leo TINDEMANS, rapporteur, Eugenio MELANDRI, Michael McGOWAN and Manuel MARIN, EC Member followed by the final vote on the report.

Fifth Lome Convention: extracts from the debate

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

In Strasbourg, throughout the week of the 1990 May's session, a large blue inflatable whale graced the lawn in front of parliament. It was the brainchild of the environmental group Greenpeace, who were seeking to raise awareness of environmental issues in general and of course, the fate of the whale for survival. For the complete archives please contact medialibrary@europarl.europa.eu

Inflatable whale installed by Greenpeace in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg

At the opening of the plenary session of May 1990, Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President, adresses the Chamber on the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras (France).

Statement by Enrique BARON CRESPO on the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras

Wilfried MARTENS, the former Belgian Prime Minister, become in may 1990 President of the European People's Party. His election is announced by the outgoing President Jacques SANTER. For the complete archives please contact medialibrary@europarl.europa.eu.

Wilfried MARTENS is elected President of the European People's Party

The leader of the Orthodox Church in Armenia come in person to thank President Enrique Baron Crespo for the aid given to his country by the people of Europe after the Armenian earthquake in December 1988.

Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President, meets with Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Leader of the Orthodox Church in Armenia

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

Dalai Lama was in Brussels to give evidence at a hearing held by the Political Affairs Committee into human rights in Tibet. "Yes. I am Dalai Lama, not come through election, not come through mysterious things. So you see, last April, I made a suggestion to the Chinese government, to the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, in order to remove this obstacle. I'm preparing to send a few people to Hong Kong to meet some Chinese representative there. So you see if Chinese site show a conciliatory attitude towards Tibetan then we Tibetan respond accordingly."

His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama on the situation of Human rights in Tibet at the EP

Dalai Lama was in Brussels to give evidence at a hearing held by the Political Affairs Committee into human rights in Tibet.

Hearing with His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama on the situation of Human rights in Tibet: extracts

In February, the European Parliament established a temporary committee to "study the impact of the German unification process on the European Community." Alan John Donnelly (UK, S) is designated as rapporteur at the first meeting on 1 March 1990. Gerardo Fernández-Albor (SP, EPP) was the President of the committee and as Vice-President were designated Simone Veil (FR, LDR) and Kirsten Jensen (DK, S). The temporary committee duties are performed over nine months between March and December 1990. During this period, it is somehow the "hub" of all parliamentary activities on German unification.

Temporary Committee on German Unification: extracts from the debate in plenary session

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

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

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, François MITTERRAND, President of the French Republic and Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor, came to speak before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 22 November 1989.

Address by François MITTERRAND, President of the French Republic and President-in-office of the European Council, in formal sitting, on the situation in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall (Strasbourg, 22/11/1989)

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

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)

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