Photo of the press conference held in Warsaw at the third Council of Europe Summit of 16 and 17 May 2005. From left to right: René van der Linden, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Terry Davis, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, and Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland.
Am 17. Mai 2006 unterzeichnen die Vertreter drei Organe – Josep Borrel Fontelles für das Europäische Parlament, Wolfgang Schüssel für den Rat der Europäischen Union und Dalia Grybauskaite, Kommissarin für Finanzplanung und Haushalt – die interinstitutionelle Vereinbarung über die Haushaltsdisziplin und die wirtschaftliche Haushaltsführung. Diese Vereinbarung betrifft vor allem den mehrjährigen Finanzrahmen 2007-2013.
On 17 May 2006, in Strasbourg, Josep Borrell Fontelles, President of the European Parliament, signs the Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management. This Agreement concerns, in particular, the financial programming framework for 2007–2013.
On 31 January 1979, in Strasbourg, Adolfo Suárez, Spanish Prime Minister, delivers an address on the Spanish political process to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
At the end of the Brussels European Council held on 15 and 16 December 2005, the Heads of State or Government of the 25 Member States of the European Union secure agreement on the 2007–2013 financial perspective.
Example of humanitarian action financed by the European Union. DIPECHO is disaster-preparedness programme; it shows that simple, inexpensive preparatory measures — such as acting out a play, as seen here — are extremely effective in limiting damage and saving human lives during a catastrophe.