Presentation of the book "The Making of a European President" by Nereo Pe&ntilde;alver Garc&iacute;a and Julian Priestley, writers of the book&nbsp;(01/07/2015)&nbsp; in presence of Martin SCHULZ, EP President and Jean-Claude JUNCKER, President of the EC, in the EP in Brussels

Brussels

JUNCKER, Jean-Claude (LU)

speech

SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE)

PRIESTLEY, Julian (UK)

Presentation of the book "The Making of a European President" by Nereo Peñalver García and Julian Priestley (01/07/2015)  in presence of Martin SCHULZ, EP President and Jean-Claude JUNCKER, President of the EC

EP President Martin Schulz entering the room (1 shot).

SOUNDBITE (English), Nereo Pe&#241;alver Garc&#237;a&#242;, Writer of the book, "Somebody had to write it, we were the lucky ones who did. This book tells a story that had to be told, it's a ground breaking story for the first time European political parties presented candidates to the presidency of the European Commission and to our knowledge this is the only book explaining the story and we are happy that through this book we will preserve the memory of the campaign of what happened and how we got there."

SOUNDBITE (English), Julian Priestley, Writer of the book, "The book tells the story, the book tells the story of the great success for the European Parliament. This was a process which was created within the European Parliament, it was a process which was seen trough by the European Parliament and which changed the way the European Union makes the top appointment of the Chief executive of the European Union."

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, "Spitzenkandidaten process is a change in European politics which is without any precedent during the last 20 years. That you kept it in the book; the moment, by also describing the role of the key figures but describing the whole circumstances, is was a unique moment that you achieved to keep it. Reading the book, you achieved, you are not professional book writers. A former secretary general of the European Parliament is perhaps a professional fairy tale presenter but as non professional book writers you found a style which is attracting and fascinating."

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, "We have the unique chance to regain the place for the communitarian institutions. And I must spend, I must tribute honour to my friend Jean-Claude Juncker today, not only for what he is doing in the Greek crisis. This is a unique engagement of a man with fighting for the welfare of Greek people and I want to honour this here but in addition I want to underline one thing - look to this year from July, 14, to July ,15, the Commission is back where the place of Commission has to be - in the centre of European action."

SOUNDBITE (English), Jean-Claude JUNCKER, President of the EC, "This election campaign and to process having proceeded this campaign are important but as Martin Schulz said this was only the beginning. Hadn't we been prepared both Schulz and myself to do what we did, this would not have been restored to be promulgated. But next time the Spitzenkandidat - the politization, the parlamentization of the European election and the consequences to be drawn from European election - will be totally different from this time because in some of our parties, socialists vs democrats in some of our countries Britain, Sweden and others, they didn't like the idea. Next time this idea will be imposed and this idea will impose itself by its own."

Close-up with the authors of the book (1 shot).

Family photo and close-up of the book (3 shots).