Le 3 mai 1995, le quotidien Luxemburger Wort dresse avec Jacques Santer, président de la Commission européenne, un bilan des cent premiers jours de travail de la nouvelle Commission et pointe les prochains défis de la construction européenne.

On 5 June 1996, the European Commission publishes a communication that defines the framework and objectives of the European Pact of Confidence for Employment, in particular regarding the commitments of the social partners and public authorities to combat unemployment.

Le 5 juin 1996, Jacques Santer, président de la Commission européenne, décrit devant le Parlement européen les objectifs du Pacte européen de confiance pour l'emploi adopté le jour-même par la Commission pour mieux lutter contre le chômage.

Le 19 juin 1996, à la veille du Conseil européen de Florence des 21 et 22 juin, Ramón de Miguel, secrétaire d'État espagnol chargé des relations avec l'Union européenne, souligne dans le quotidien madrilène El País la nécessité de trouver une solution à la crise politique provoquée par la maladie de la "vache folle".

At the meeting of the European Council held in Florence on 21 and 22 June 1996, the Heads of State or Government of the Fifteen adopt a series of measures relating, inter alia, to employment, the reform of the labour market and aid for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With regard to food safety, they provide in particular for the gradual lifting of the ban on exports of beef and veal from the United Kingdom. Finally, the Council asks the Member States to ratify at an early date the Convention establishing the European Police Office (Europol) and the Protocol thereto.

‘Group photo with cow.’ For the German cartoonist Hanel, the BSE crisis completely obscures the debates of the Fifteen at the European Council in Florence on 21 and 22 June 1996.

On 24 June 1996, commenting on the results of the Florence European Council held on 21 and 22 June, the daily newspaper La Libre Belgique criticises the European policy of John Major, British Prime Minister, in the context of the crisis caused by ‘mad cow’ disease.

Le 4 novembre 1996, le quotidien français Le Monde dresse le portrait de Jacques Delors, président de la Commission européenne, et décrit les enjeux du Pacte européen de confiance pour l'emploi adopté le 5 juin par la Commission pour mieux lutter contre le chômage.

Franz-Hermann Brüner, Director-General of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).

Photo of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) in Brussels.

Le 14 janvier 1999, le quotidien communiste français L'Humanité décrit la crise politique qui oppose une partie du Parlement européen à la Commission européenne que préside Jacques Santer.

Statement by President Jacques Santer the day after the resignation of the Members of the Commission.

Commission statement following the resignation of its Members.

Le 17 mars 1999, commentant l'annonce par Jacques Santer de la démission collective de la Commission européenne qu'il préside, le quotidien français Le Monde examine la teneur du rapport du Comité des experts indépendants.

On 17 March 1999, commenting on the collective resignation of the European Commission under its President, Jacques Santer, the French daily newspaper Libération assesses the work done in Brussels by the former Luxembourg Prime Minister.

Entschließung des Europäischen Parlaments vom 23. März 1999 zum Rücktritt der Kommission und zur Ernennung einer neuen Kommission.

En avril 1999, la Revue du Marché commun et de l'Union européenne commente la démission collective de la Commission européenne présidée par Jacques Santer et évoque les accusations portées à son encontre.

On 17 March 1999, Édith Cression, Member of the European Commission under its President Jacques Santer, speaks to La Libre Belgique about her involvement in the revelations that led to the collective resignation of the Commission two days earlier.

Am 14. Juli 1999 gibt Jacques Santer, der als Präsident der Europäischen Kommission zurückgetreten ist, eine Pressekonferenz in Brüssel, auf der er eine Bilanz der Arbeiten seiner Kommission seit ihrem Amtsantritt im Januar 1995 zieht.

Am 17. März 1999 kommentiert die belgische Tageszeitung La Libre Belgique den kollektiven Rücktritt der Europäischen Kommission unter dem Vorsitz Jacques Santers zwei Tage zuvor und zieht eine Bilanz der Arbeiten und der Ereignisse, die zu diesem Rücktritt geführt haben.

Am 14. Juli 1999 hält die Europäische Kommission unter Vorsitz von Jacques Santer in Brüssel ihre wöchentliche Arbeitssitzung ab, um über die laufenden Geschäfte und die dringenden Angelegenheiten nach dem geschlossenen Rücktritt zu beraten, solange noch keine neue Kommission ernannt wurde.

‘That’s where it went wrong!’ In 1999, the cartoonist Fritz Behrendt illustrates the serious crisis that is rocking a European Commission under fire for its financial and administrative mismanagement.

In 1999, the German cartoonist, Walter Hanel, takes an ironic look at the waiting game being played by Jacques Santer in order to impose his authority on the European Commission of which he is the President and which is affected by growing suspicions of corruption.

In diesem Interview erinnert Jacques Santer, ehemaliger Präsident der Europäischen Kommission, an die Gründe und die Umstände, die ihn zum geschlossenen Rücktritt der Kommission am 15. März 1999 veranlassten.

In this interview, Nicole Fontaine, Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2002, looks back at the circumstances which led to the adoption by the European Parliament, on 23 March 1999, of a resolution on the resignation of the European Commission presided by Jacques Santer and on the appointment of a new Commission.

On 25 March 1999, the French daily newspaper Libération comments on the decision, taken at the extraordinary Berlin European Council, to appoint Romano Prodi, former Italian Prime Minister, as President of the European Commission.

On 27 March 1999, following the collective resignation of the European Commission presided by Jacques Santer, the French daily newspaper Le Monde describes Romano Prodi, former Italian Prime Minister, who was nominated two days earlier by the Heads of State or Government of the Fifteen to succeed him.

Speech by Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission to the European Parliament, 14 September 1999.

Group photograph of the 20 Members of the European Commission chaired by Romano Prodi, taken during the first official meeting of the Commission held on 18 September 1999 in Brussels. Seated, from left to right: Neil Kinnock, Romano Prodi and Loyola de Palacio del Valle-Lersundi. Standing, from left to right: Günter Verheugen, Chris Patten, Frits Bolkestein, Pedro Solbes Mira, Michel Barnier, Anna Diamantopoulou, Viviane Reding, Michaele Schreyer, António Vitorino, Erkki Liikanen, Margot Wallström, Mario Monti, Pascal Lamy, Franz Fischler, David Byrne, Philippe Busquin and Poul Nielson.

Am 15. September 1999 stimmen die Abgeordneten des Europäischen Parlaments unter dem Vorsitz von Nicole Fontaine über die Einsetzung der Europäischen Kommission unter ihrem Präsidenten, dem Italiener Romano Prodi,zu.

On 15 September 1999, the European Parliament approves the appointment of Romano Prodi, former President of the Italian Council of Ministers, as President of the European Commission, replacing Jacques Santer, who has resigned.