In this interview, Catherine Lalumière, former State Secretary to the Minister for Economic Affairs, Finance and the Budget with special responsibility for Consumer Affairs (1983–1984), explains why she represented France on the Internal Market Council, a role which brought her into contact with European issues for the first time.

In this interview, Catherine Lalumière, former State Secretary to the Minister for Economic Affairs, Finance and the Budget with special responsibility for Consumer Affairs, emphasises the quality of the European officials with whom she worked, in particular Émile Noël, former Secretary-General of the Commission of the European Communities.

On 20 November 1984, Émile Noël, Secretary-General of the Commission of the European Communities, gives a lecture to the Royal Institute for International Relations (IRRI), in Brussels, in which he emphasises the need to give a new impetus to the European integration process, despite economic and political difficulties.

On 14 June 1985, in Schengen (Luxembourg), France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Benelux countries sign the Schengen Agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders.

On 14 June 1985, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs, signs the agreement on the gradual abolition of checks at the common borders between Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Luxembourg and the Netherlands, on board the cruise ship ‘Princesse Marie-Astrid', moored at Schengen, Luxembourg.

In diesem Interview beschreibt die ehemalige französische Staatssekretärin für Europäische Angelegenheiten Catherine Lalumière die Atmosphäre und den Ablauf des Europäischen Rates von Mailand am 28. und 29. Juni 1985. Dabei geht sie besonders auf die Entscheidung ein, eine Regierungskonferenz (RK) zur Modifizierung und Ergänzung des Vertrages zur Gründung der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft (EWG) einzuberufen, die auf Anregung der italienischen Ratspräsidentschaft getroffen wurde.

On 2 July 1985, following the Milan European Council, the French daily newspaper Le Monde comments on the Ten's disagreement on the future of the institutions of the European Community with a view to its development into a European Union.

In this interview, Catherine Lalumière, former French Junior Minister for European Affairs, describes the workings of French diplomacy in terms of European issues for the period 1984–1986.

In diesem Interview beschreibt die ehemalige französische Staatssekretärin für Europäische Angelegenheiten Catherine Lalumière die Haltung Frankreichs und die Herausforderungen in der letzten Phase der Verhandlungen über den Beitritt Spaniens und Portugals zu den Europäischen Gemeinschaften in den Jahren 1984 und 1985.

‘European Communities — Welcome to a united Europe!' In 1985, German cartoonist, Hanel, illustrates Spain and Portugal's accession to the European Communities which are divided and subject to internal disputes.

Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, shakes hands with the President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, during the official signing of Portugal’s Treaty of Accession to the European Communities on 12 June 1985 in Lisbon.

In this interview, Catherine Lalumière, former State Secretary to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs with special responsibility for European Affairs, explains why 1985 was considered a ‘good year’. She particularly refers to the end of the British crisis, the arrival of Jacques Delors at the Commission, the end of the negotiations for the accession of Spain and Portugal, the adoption of the principle of the mutual recognition of standards and the convening of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), which led the Twelve to conclude the Single European Act (SEA) in 1985–1986.

In diesem Interview beschreibt die ehemalige französische Staatssekretärin für Europäische Angelegenheiten Catherine Lalumière die Schwerpunkte und den Ablauf des Europäischen Rates von Luxemburg vom 2. und 3. Dezember 1985 und geht vor allem darauf ein, wie die Staats- und Regierungschefs der zehn Mitgliedstaaten schließlich die Blockade in den Verhandlungen der Regierungskonferenz (RK) lösten, die in den Jahren 1985 und 1986 zur Verabschiedung der Einheitlichen Europäischen Akte (EEA) durch die zwölf Mitgliedstaaten führte.

In this interview, Catherine Lalumière, former French Junior Minister for European Affairs and former Secretary General of the Council of Europe, considers the European commitment of François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995.

In diesem Interview beschreibt die ehemalige Generalsekretärin des Europarates Catherine Lalumière das politische Wiedererstarken dieser Institution nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer im November 1989 und nach dem Prozess der Demokratisierung in den ehemaligen Länder des kommunistischen Ostblocks.

On 1 October 1992, Catherine Lalumière, French Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, gives a progress report on its new pan-European imperatives and on its new activities.

Interactive map showing the 10 founding members of the Council of Europe in 1949, as well as the subsequent accessions that determined the present composition of the organisation.

In this personal account, Bronislaw Geremek, Polish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2000, outlines the changing role and influence of the Council of Europe.

In diesem Interview erläutert Catherine Lalumière, ehemaliges Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments und ehemaliges Stellvertretendes Mitglied im Konvent zur Charta der Grundrechte der Europäischen Union, die Arbeitsmethode, die in den Jahren 1999 und 2000 von den Konventsmitgliedern angewandt wurde, und verleiht ihrer Befriedigung über die erzielten Ergebnisse Ausdruck.

On 1 May 2001, Catherine Lalumière, substitute member of the European Parliament Delegation to the Convention responsible for drawing up the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights, explains why she believes that the Charter should not remain a declaration of political intent but, on the contrary, should be integrated into the Community treaties, thereby securing legal credibility for it.

Table listing the members of the Convention responsible for drafting the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights, chaired by Roman Herzog, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).