Simone Veil, former European Parliament President, passed away on 30 June 2017. She was a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps and central figure of feminism in Europe. In 1979 she became the first President of the directly elected European Parliament.

Simone Veil will be buried in the French Pantheon in Paris, where France celebrates its "great men and women", with her husband, Antoine, who was a lawyer.

Simone VEIL

Clip : Homage to Simone VEIL

Simone VEIL, President of the European Parliament in the Strasbourg hemicycle in July 1979

Memoclip: Tribute to Simone VEIL

Antonio TAJANI, EP President and Donald TUSK, President of the European Council attend the ceremony for the funerals of Simone VEIL, former EP President (1979-1982): extracts from the ceremony in Paris

State funeral for Simone VEIL - Former European Parliament President, Holocaust survivor and women’s rights advocate in Paris

EP Plenary session - Homage to Simone VEIL, former EP President (1979-1982)

Introductory remarks by Antonio TAJANI, EP President - Minute of silence in honour of Simone VEIL

First sitting of the European Parliament elected by direct universal suffrage: election of Simone VEIL as EP President

EP President in plenary session in Strasbourg.

Outside view of EP buildings in Brussels - HDR effect

Official visit of President of Egypt, to the European Parliament in Luxembourg

Visit of Italian President at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in June 1985

Portrait of Simone VEIL, EP President 1979-1982

Election of EP President DANKERT

Visit of Margaret THATCHER, Prime Minister of Britain, to the EP

Inauguration of the 'Esplanade Solidarnosc 1980' and of the 'Agora Simone Veil' in Brussels

Inauguration of the Esplanade Solidarnosc 1980 and Agora Simone Veil in front of the EP in Brussels.

Simone Veil, dressed in the French Academician's uniform of a black jacket embroidered in green laurel leaves, speaks with Academicians in the library of the Institut de France before a ceremony in Paris Thursday, March 18, 2010. The name of Simone Veil, now 82, is synonymous with the battle that she spearheaded to legalize abortion in France. She has twice served as minister, for health and social affairs, and became the first woman president of the European Parliament. Veil, a French political icon who survived Nazi death camps and went on to become a moral figurehead for France, was inducted Thursday into the Academie Francaise, the sixth woman to cross the portals of the centuries-old institution. (AP Photo/Philippe Wopjazer, Pool)

Former EP Presidents reunion.

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