In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, former Member and Vice-President of the European Parliament and former Minister for European Affairs in the French Foreign Ministry, discusses the origin of his involvement in politics which was influenced by his commitment to the European integration process.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002, comments on the address given by the Prime Minister on 28 May 2001 about the future of an enlarged Europe.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002 and Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007, gives his views on the methods to be implemented in order to achieve the concept of ‘Europe as a global power’.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002, discusses the importance of the years spent in this post in strengthening his European conviction.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002, representative of the French authorities in the European Convention and Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007, gives his views on the causes and consequences of France’s rejection of the Constitutional Treaty.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002, representative of the French authorities in the European Convention and Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007, gives his views on the prospects of the European Union following the failure of the Constitutional Treaty.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002 and representative of the French authorities in the European Convention, comments on the predominant role played by France within the Convention on the Future of Europe.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002, representative of the French authorities in the Convention on the Future of Europe and Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007, considers the rejection of the Constitutional Treaty by the French people in 2005 and the prospects for the European Union.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002, gives his impressions of the work carried out within the European Union institutions.

Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002, gives his views on the similarities and differences between the Social Democratic governments that held power in Europe during the late 1990s.

Pierre Moscovici, Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997, Minister for European Affairs in the Jospin government from 1997 to 2002 and Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007, emphasises the importance of this institution.

In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997 and Vice-President of the organisation from 2004 to 2007, describes how the European Parliament’s powers evolved between these two periods and addresses the question of the democratic deficit in the European institutions.

In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the French Foreign Ministry from 1997 to 2002, criticises the outcome of the Berlin European Council held on 24 and 25 March 1999 at which Agenda 2000 was adopted, an action programme relating to the internal operation of the European Union, the establishment of a new financial framework, the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP) and the pre-accession strategy for the applicant countries before the fifth enlargement of the EU.

On 26 March 1999, following the Extraordinary European Council held in Berlin, Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, and Pierre Moscovici, French Minister for European Affairs, hold a press conference in which they review the negotiations between the Fifteen with particular regard to Agenda 2000.

In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the French Foreign Ministry from 1997 to 2002, describes the negotiations held during the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union and at the Nice European Council of 7, 8 and 9 December 2000 which led to the signing of the Treaty of Nice on 26 February 2001.

Am 13. November 2000 berichtet Pierre Moscovici, französischer delegierter Minister für europäische Angelegenheiten, über den Fortschritt der Verhandlungen über die Reform der europäischen Institutionen und beantwortet die Fragen der Journalisten über die deutsch-französische Zusammenarbeit.

Am 26. Februar 2001 findet die feierliche Unterzeichnung des Vertrags von Nizza statt. Der französische Staatspräsident Jacques Chirac, der französische Premierminister Lionel Jospin, der schwedische Premierminister und amtierende Ratspräsident der Europäischen Union Göran Persson, die Präsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments Nicole Fontaine und der Präsident der Europäischen Kommission Romano Prodi ergreifen nacheinander das Wort, um die Unterzeichnung des Vertrages zu begrüßen und an die zukünftigen Herausforderungen für die Europäische Union zu erinnern.

In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the French Foreign Ministry from 1997 to 2002 and representative of the French Government in the Convention on the Future of Europe in 2002, describes the circumstances surrounding Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s appointment as President of this Convention.

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Convention, places his Chinese porcelain tortoise on the Presidency table. For the President, this mascot with a dragon's head, a symbol of longevity, represents a prudent strategy which achieves its aim. Like the Convention, the dragon tortoise advances slowly so that, when the moment comes, it can catch the final text in its claws.

In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, former Member and Vice-President of the European Parliament, former Minister for European Affairs in the French Foreign Ministry and former representative of the French Government in the Convention on the Future of Europe, discusses the results of the referendums held in 2005 in France and the Netherlands on the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

‘Euro-sorrow'. In 2005, the German cartoonist, Walter Hanel, depicts the crisis affecting the European Union following the rejection by French and Dutch voters of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

In diesem Interview analysiert Jacques Santer, als persönlicher Vertreter des luxemburgischen Premierministers Jean-Claude Juncker ehemaliges Mitglied des Europäischen Konvents, die negativen Ergebnisse der Volksabstimmungen zum Vertrag über eine Verfassung für Europa im Frühjahr 2005 in Frankreich und den Niederlanden.

In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, Minister for European Affairs in the French Foreign Ministry from 1997 to 2002 and representative of the French Government in the Convention on the Future of Europe in 2002, expresses his preference for the method of the Convention, which he deems more effective than that of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC).

In this interview, António Vitorino, representative of the Commission to the European Convention from 2002 to 2003 who participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) as Commission representative from 2003 to 2004, emphasises the originality of the Convention's method which was based, in particular, on the diversity of its composition and the openness and transparency of the debates.

In this interview, Pierre Moscovici, former Member and Vice-President of the European Parliament, former Minister for European Affairs in the French Foreign Ministry and National Secretary for International Relations of the French Socialist Party (PS), emphasises the importance for the Socialist Party to define a clear policy line concerning the future of the European integration process, in particular after the debates within the party on the subject of the Treaty of Lisbon.