David SASSOLI, EP President meets with Enrique BARON CRESPO and Hans-Gert, POTTERING

Enrique BARON CRESPO, President of the European Parliament

2021 portraits gallery of EP Presidents

Book presentation by Jose Manuel GARCIA-MARGALLO Y MARFIL

EPRS- FMA - DG COMM roundtable discussion - EU institutional dynamics : Ten years after the Lisbon Treaty

30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - in the presence of Wolfgang SCHÄUBLE, President of the German Bundestag

EP Plenary - 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - in the presence of Wolfgang SCHÄUBLE, President of the German Bundestag

Inauguration Helmut KOHL Building in the European Parliament in Brussels

The making of a new political institution - EP-EUI History roundtable - 40 Years of direct elections to the EP

Visit of Tadeusz MAZOWIECKI, Prime Minister of Poland at the European Parliament in Brussels

Enrique BARON CRESPO, Hans Dietrich GENSCHER

MEP Enrique BARON CRESPO meets with German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich GENSCHER at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Meeting at the EP in Strasbourg with the President of the European Parliament Enrique BARON CRESPO and Zivota PANIC, minister of defense of Yugolasvia

Alain DESTEXHE , Enrique BARON CRESPO, Reginald MOREELS

Enrique BARON CRESPO - EP President receives a Alain DESTEXHE

Exhibition at the EP in Strasbourg

Enrique BARON CRESPO - EP President meets with guests at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Enrique BARON CRESPO - EP President meets with Japanese Delegation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

Meeting with Russian Delegation at the European Parliament in Strasbourg

David MARTIN, Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President

Enrique BARON CRESPO - EP President receives David Martin

Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President with guests

Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President, Robert RUNCIE Archbishop of Canterbury

MEETING WITH Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President and Robert RUNCIE Archbishop of Canterbury

Ludivina GARCIA ARIAS, Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President, M SALERNO

2nd European Conference of mining areas

Marie-Claude VAYSSADE, Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President

200th birthday of the declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Enrico VINCI, Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President, Jacques NANCY

Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President meeting

Enrique BARON CRESPO EP President meets a guest

EP President meets with a guest in Brussels in April 1990

Architects and promotors present the model and the plans of the Jean Monnet Foundation of Europe headquarters to the EP President in April 1990 in Strasbourg

EP President meets with the FC Parliament football team in Strasbourg in April 1990

Pat COX, EP President, meets with Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the European Convention on the Future of Europe, during the Conference of Presidents in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Meeting between Pat COX, EP President, and Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the European Convention on the Future of Europe

Meeting of the EP Conference of Presidents in Brussels on composition and mandate of the temporary Committee on Echelon.

Decision on the composition and mandate of the temporary Committee on Echelon by the EP Conference of Presidents

This recording shows the Sakharov Prize 1991 Award ceremony for Adem DEMACI, Kosovo. In 1991 Demaçi was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament for his integrity in his opposition to 'an authoritarian and intolerant regime'. Demaçi, accepting the prize as homage to the people of Kosovo, stated that 'freedom of speech is the first, crucial step towards democracy. Without freedom of speech there is no dialogue, without dialogue the truth cannot be established, and without the truth progress is impossible.'

Sakharov Prize 1991: Award ceremony Adem DEMACI (Demaçi), Kosovo

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)

Address by Lech WALESA, President of Poland, at the European Parliament in Brussels (04/04/1991): extracts

Official visit of Vaclav HAVEL, President of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic to the European Parliament in Strasbourg (20/03/1991): arrival, meeting with Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President, handshake, extract from the press conference.

Official visit of Vaclav HAVEL, President of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic to the EP: arrival, meeting with Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President, handshake, extract from the press conference

Some actors in the European Community have received a medal for their help in the German reunification and the integration of East Germany into the community, including Gerardo FERNANDEZ-ALBOR, President of the temporary Committee on the impact of the German reunification on th European Community and Alan John DONNELLY, Rapporteur of this Committee.

Medal presentation to Gerardo FERNANDEZ-ALBOR and Alan John DONNELLY, the President and the Rapporteur of the temporary Committee for German reunification

On July 17, 1990, Jozsef ANTALL, Hungarian Prime Minister, is at the European Parliament in Brussels. Arrival, meeting and roundtable with Enrique BARON CRESPO, EP President. Address by Jozsef ANTALL on the forthcoming Association Agreement.

Official visit of József ANTALL, Hungarian Prime Minister, at EP in Brussels

This Memoclip shows the visit of Winnie MANDELA in June 1990 to the European Parliament on the occasion of the address of her husband Nelson MANDELA, leader of the ANC to the MEPs few months after his release.

Memoclip: Winnie MANDELA at the European Parliament

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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