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, Hans-August Lücker, first elected Member of the European Parliament in 1958, outlines the main powers granted to this institution upon its establishment.

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.

On 13 November 2000, Pierre Moscovici, French Minister for European Affairs, reviews the state of negotiations on the reform of the European institutions and replies to questions from journalists on the action taken by France and Germany.

On 26 February 2001, at the ceremony held to mark the signing of the Treaty of Nice, Jacques Chirac, French President, Lionel Jospin, French Prime Minister, Göran Persson, Swedish Prime Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, Nicole Fontaine, President of the European Parliament, and Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, successively deliver addresses to welcome the signing of the Treaty and to emphasise the future challenges facing the European Union.

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 this interview, Jacques Santer, former member of the European Convention in his capacity as Personal Representative of the Luxembourg Prime Minster, Jean-Claude Juncker, analyses the negative results of the referenda held in spring 2005 in France and the Netherlands on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

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.