This memoclip illustrates the relations between Mário Soares and the European institutions. Mário Soares was a Portuguese lawyer and Socialist politician. He was President of Portugal when the country entered the European Union in 1986. Mário Soares was President of the European Movement International from 1997 to 1999, and Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.

Strasbourg

FONTAINE, Nicole (EPP-DE, FR)

The Hague

SOARES, Mário (PSE, PT)

PERES, Shimon (IL)

DELORS, Jacques (FR)

VAN MIERT, Karel A.L.H. (S, BE)

Lisbon

SANTER, Jacques (EPP-DE, LU)

JOSPIN, Lionel (S, FR)

NAPOLITANO, Giorgio (PSE, IT)

BRANDT, Willy (S, DE)

Memoclip: Mario SOARES and the European Institutions

Title: Memoclip: Mario SOARES and the European Institutions 

25/11/1982 - Press conference after the meeting of the Socialist International in presence of Willy Brandt, Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Socialist International, Shimon Peres, Vice-President of the Socialist International, Karel van Miert, Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Flemish socialist party, Lionel Jospin, First Secretary of the French Socialist Party, M&aacute;rio Soares, Vice-President of the Socialist International. Statement by M&aacute;rio Soares (in FRENCH) on Lebanon. (11 shots)

12/06/1985, Lisbon, Portugal - Portugal accession ceremony. Arrival of the participants: Jacques Delors, President of the CEC, shaking hands with M&aacute;rio Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister. Round table and welcome speech by M&aacute;rio Soares (in PORTUGUESE). Signing session. (4 shots)

09/07/1986, Strasbourg, France - Formal sitting of the European Parliament: visit of M&aacute;rio Soares, President of Portugal. Speech by M&aacute;rio Soares (in PORTUGUESE). (6 shots)

26-27/06/1992, Lisbon, Portugal - European Council of Lisbon: group photo with M&aacute;rio Soares, President of Portugal and President in office of the Council (3 shots)

15/09/1995, Lisbon, Portugal - Visit of Jacques Santer, President of the EC, to M&aacute;rio Soares, President of Portugal

03/1998, The Hague, The Netherlands: Interview (in FRENCH) of M&aacute;rio Soares, President of the European Movement International, on the results achieved 50 years after the The<br />Hague Congress (3 shots)

20/07/1999, Strasbourg, France - Election of the President of the European Parliament - M&aacute;rio Soares is candidate to the presidency: vote; Giorgio Napolitano, Member of the EP,<br />announces the results; Nicole Fontaine wins the election and becomes President of the EP. (30 shots)

12/06/2010, Lisbon, Portugal, and Madrid, Spain - Ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the accession of Spain and Portugal to the EU: Exterior of the Hieronymites Monastery, Lisbon. Interior of Royal Palace, Madrid. Speech by M&aacute;rio Soares (in PORTUGUESE). (14 shots)