Meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee EU-Morocco

Press conference- 1st meeting of the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

AFET Committee In association with the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee, the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee

The european Parliament on your doorstep, in Viseu Portugal.

Official opening of the mobile Stand - The European Parliament at your doorstep, in Vila Real, Portugal  - Music for Europe and April Revolution concert by Orquestra sem Fronteiras

Official opening of the mobile Stand - The European Parliament at your doorstep, in Vila Real, Portugal - Interactive exhibition at Science Centre

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

Nelson MANDELA, leader of the African National Congress and laureate of the 1988 Sakharov Prize, adresses the members of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, during the plenary session of June 1990. Afterwards, he gives a press conference in the presence of Winnie Mandela, his wife.

Address by Nelson MANDELA, Leader of the African National Congress to the European Parliament, and press conference: extracts

Nelson MANDELA, leader of the African National Congress and laureate of the 1988 Sakharov Prize, adresses the members of the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, during the plenary session of June 1990.

Address by Nelson MANDELA, Leader of the African National Congress, to the European Parliament

For the first time, hundreds of secondary school pupils from all over the European community come to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to discover more about Europe and each other, as part of the first ever Euroscuola programme. Welcome speech by the Parliament's information director, Francois Brodry.

First Euroscola at the European Parliament in Strasbourg: extracts

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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

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