This memoclip illustrates some major events between 1977 and 2009 with Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING in relation with the European Parliament. Notably as President of the French Republic and as President of the Convention of the Future of Europe.

Brussels

TAJANI, Antonio (EPP, IT)

VERHOFSTADT, Guy (Renew, BE)

Strasbourg

LEINEN, Jo (S&D, DE)

FONTAINE, Nicole (EPP-DE, FR)

BARÓN CRESPO, Enrique (PSE, ES)

HÄNSCH, Klaus (PSE, DE)

NAPOLITANO, Giorgio (PSE, IT)

DEHAENE, Jean-Luc (EPP, BE)

GISCARD d'ESTAING, Valéry (EPP, FR)

WALLIS, Diana (ALDE, UK)

MÉNDEZ DE VIGO, Íñigo (EPP, ES)

AMATO, Giuliano (IT)

Memoclip: Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING and the European Parliament

Title: Memoclip: Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING and the European Parliament 

Rise of the European flag of the EP, Strasbourg, 1977 (2 shots)

Building of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg where the European Parliament held its parliamentary sessions, 1977 (1 shot)

Inauguration of the building of the Council of Europe by Valery GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the French Republic, Strasbourg, 28/01/1977 (2 shots)

External shot of the Palace of Europe building, Strasbourg, 26/07/1989

Election of Enrique BAR&Oacute;N CRESPO as President of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 25/07/1989 (2 shots)

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the French Republic, Mr Speaker, the Liberal, Democratic and Reform Group associates itself with the expression of those who have already congratulated you.

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the French Republic, To do this, we will not give you roses. We will hand over blueberries and carnations.

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the French Republic, Our congratulations are addressed to you, your country and to the European cause.

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the French Republic, To you, because you are both a young man, which is a symbol of dynamism and already an ancient and convinced European.

External and internal shots of the Palace of Europe building, Strasbourg, 26/07/1989 (3 shots)

Valery GISCARD D'ESTAING on the first semester of the Spanish Presidency also the time of the first EP election, 26/07/1989

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the French Republic, The first half of 1989, that of the Spanish Presidency, was also the election of the European Parliament

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the French Republic, We congratulate all our colleagues on their election. You know that the number of new elected officials is particularly important: 260

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the French Republic, We look forward to the arrival of new talents who will in turn take over from Europe.

Convention on the Future of Europe - Valery GISCARD D'ESTAING meets with Nicole FONTAINE, EP President, in the EP building Paul-Henri Spaak, Brussels, 02/2002 (4 shots)

Handshake between Val&eacute;ry GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, on the left, and Nicole FONTAINE, EP President

Jos&eacute; Mar&iacute;a AZNAR, Spanish Prime Minister and President in office of the Council of the EU, Pat COX, EP President, and Romano PRODI, President of the European Council, at the Convention on the Future of Europe, 02/2002

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, We dream of Europe and imagine a peaceful continent, liberated from these partitions and obstacles where history and geography will finally be reconciled, thus allowing all the states of Europe to build their future together after following separate paths to the west and east.

Convention of the Future of Europe - Valery GISCARD D'ESTAING meets with Pat COX, EP President, and the Conference of Presidents, Strasbourg, 02/2002

Convention of the Future of Europe, Brussels, 12/09/2002 (7 shots)

Discussion between Antonio TAJANI, Member of the EP, on the right, and Val&eacute;ry GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, The European Constitution should be presented in an understandable way to high school students in Europe in their civic training class.

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, It is up to us today to decide on this draft by consensus and to tell me whether I can, next Friday, 20 June, when presenting this draft to the European Council meeting in Greece, indicate that the Convention wishes this text to form the basis of the future Treaty establishing the European Constitution.

Adoption of the draft Constitutional treaty on the Convention for the Future of Europe, 13/06/2003 (4 shots)

Relaunch of the Intergovernmental Conference, Strasbourg, 09/03/2004 (6 shots)

Handshake between Jo LEINEN, Member of the EP, on the right, and Val&eacute;ry GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe,, We would risk a second failure that must be avoided at all costs, because if we can say that the first failure, it made you smile, right, it was the non conclusion. A second failure would be rejection.

Signature of the the Convention on the Future of Europe, Brussels, 03/07/2010 (15 shots)

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, The last person I wish to thank is my tortoise Wukei ! So in the name of the Convention, I will give her her reward

SOUNDBITE (English), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, My last task today, is to invite you to inscribe your names on the document of transmission, recording our work together afterwards, demanding, and perhaprs historic. Thank you

Handshake between Giuliano AMATO, Vice-President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, on the left, Val&eacute;ry GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe

Group photo with Val&eacute;ry GISCARD D'ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, in front of the European Parliament building, Brussels, 03/07/2020

Discussion between Val&eacute;ry GISCARD D'ESTAING, on the right, and Enrique BAR&Oacute;N CRESPO, EP President, on the EP role after Lisbonne, EP Library, Brussels, 2009 (5 shots)

Meeting with Guy VERHOFSTADT, Member of the EP, 1st from the left, Diana WALLIS, Member of the EP, 3rd from the left, Val&eacute;ry GISCARD D'ESTAING, 4th from the left, and Enrique BAR&Oacute;N CRESPO, EP President, 5th from the left, in the EP Library, in Brussels (5 shots)

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, It is a microphone placed on bottles of French mineral water. It looks a bit like the Lisbon Treaty.

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, Well, first of all, I am happy to meet a number of people with whom I worked at the European Convention, which was a great moment in European history.

SOUNDBITE (French), Val&#233;ry GISCARD D&apos;ESTAING, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, The European Foundation, which took place in 1990, had as its theme, and I quote: The future of the Community, the European Community and the Member States. Proposals relating to economic and monetary union, i.e. currency and political union, and the role of national parliaments and the European Parliament, so that was very premonitory