Susanna CECCARDI in the EP in Strasbourg

Italian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

German MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Romanian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Finnish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

ECON

PolDep A / ENVI

ENVI

Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

FEMM

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

AGRI

Committee on Foreign Affairs

AFET

Committee on Budgetary Control

CONT

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

EMPL

Committee on Legal Affairs

JURI

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

ITRE

Committee on Fisheries

PECH

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

IMCO

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

LIBE

Committee on Transport and Tourism

TRAN

Press Conference: Guy VERHOFSTADT - President of the ADLE Group and Alexander DE CROO, President of Open VLD

UNKN

Committee on International Trade

INTA

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Committee on Constitutional Affairs

AFCO

Slovenian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Italian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Czech MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Belgian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Polish MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term

Cyprus MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Estonian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

French MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Welcome village opening

Austrian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Lithuanian MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Luxembourg MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Maltese MEPs official portraits - 10th Parliamentary term.

Catherine TRAUTMANN,, Enrique BARON CRESPO, Luciana CASTELLINA, Helena M. VAZ DA SILVA, Biagio DE GIOVANNI

Meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Meeting in the president office

Ongoing construction works at the LOW building in Strasbourg

Susanna AGNELLI, Klaus HANSCH EP President

Klaus HANSCH EP President meets Susanna AGNELLI

Christine BARTHET-MAYER, Catherine LALUMIERE

Christine BARTHET-MAYER meets with Catherine LALUMIERE

Marcel SCHLECHTER, Brian SIMPSON, Ben FAYOT

Meeting in Strasbourg

Portrait of Karla M.H. PEIJS with an usher in the hemicycle at Strasbourg

Portrait of Paul RUBIG in the Hemicycle at  Strasbourg

Klaus HANSCH EP President receives a khata from a tibetan monk

Interview of Dagmar ROTH-BEHRENDT

Klaus HANSCH EP President meets Hans HENKEL

Klaus HANSCH EP President meets Joao CRAVINHO

Committee on Agriculture

Neil KINNOCK, Honor FUNCK,  Markus FERBER

Norbert SCHEIWE, Wilfried TELKAMPER, Klaus HANSCH EP President, Nickolai WERNER

Klaus HANSCH EP President receives a book about Auschwitz

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 Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor, in formal sitting, on the situation in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall (Strasbourg, 22/11/1989)

On 22 November 1989 in Strasbourg, François Mitterrand, President in office of the Council of the EU, invited Helmut Kohl to address the MEPs aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

EP rewind: Addresses by Helmut KOHL, German Federal Chancellor and François MITTERRAND, President of the French Republic

November 1989 marks the beginning of the Velvet Revolution which led to the end of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Vaclav Havel is the personification of this uprising and the reunification of Europe. During a formal sitting in 2001, he expressed his feelings about being European “I was so obviously and naturally European that I did not even think about it. And I am sure that applies to the majority of Europeans. They are profoundly European but they are not even aware of it.”

EP Rewind: 30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, people leaving East Germany by car. Atmosphere in Berlin: people drinking, bringing german flag. Shots at Brandenburg gate. Crowd in front of the Wall. Border crossing by people from east Germany, receiving money. Cars crossing the border. Demolition of the Wall. People entering West Berlin.

Infoclip: Fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989

Willy BRANDT, former Chancellor of Germany gave a press conference on 15 November 1989 in the European Parliament in Brussels, just a few days after the fall of the Berlin wall

EP rewind: Press conference by Willy BRANDT after the fall of the Berlin wall

In late 1989, Brandt became one of the first leftwing leaders in West Germany to publicly favor a quick reunification of Germany, instead of some sort of two-state federation or other kind of interim arrangement. Brandt's public statement "Now grows together what belongs together," was widely quoted in those days.

Memoclip: Press conference by Willy BRANDT, former Chancellor of Germany, after the fall of the Berlin wall

Fall of the Berlin wall (09-10/11/1989)

On July 25, 1989, Enrique BARON CRESPO is elected as EP President. Shots of the vote, announcement of the results and congratulations. Extracts from the speech by Enrique BARON CRESPO, new EP President.

Election of Enrique BARON CRESPO as EP President (25/07/1989)

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 September 13, 1988, unofficial visit byYasser ARAFAT, leader of the Liberation Organization (PLO) at EP in Strasbourg. Introduction by Rudi ARNDT, MEP (DE, EPS President). Extracts from Yasser ARAFAT's speech.

Unofficial visit of Yasser ARAFAT, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, organized by the Socialist Group, at the European Parliament

MEP Diemut R. Theato -speaks in plenary on the general budget of the Communities for 1988.

MEP Diemut R. Theato - Plenary debate on general budget of the Communities for 1988

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

Visit of Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress in the European Parliament and participation at a hearing on Human Rights

Memoclip: Visit of Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress in 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

Official Visit of Margaret THATCHER, President in office of the EU Council and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to the European Parliament in Strasbourg - She particpates to the debate on the Conclusion of the European Council of London (5-6/12/1986). She is interrupted by Ian PAISLEY at the beginning of her intervention.

Debate on the Conclusion of the European Council: Statement by Margaret THATCHER, President in office of the EU Council and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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

On 11 June 1986, after the vote of a resolution by the European Parliament. The Parliament, the Council and the Commission sign a Joint Declaration against Racism and Xenophobia. The text condemns all forms of intolerance, hostility and use of force on the grounds of racial, religious, cultural, social or national differences, and tends to protect the individuality and dignity of every member of society and to reject any form of segregation of foreigners

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