In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, emphasises the democratic progress brought about by the Lisbon Treaty with the significant strengthening of the European Parliament's powers.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, emphasises the responsibility of national governments in the Union's democratic deficit, and advocates the exercise of control by national parliaments over the governments' respective actions.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, believes that the majority of the Constitutional Treaty is taken up in the Lisbon Treaty, and feels little nostalgia for the European Convention or for any ‘constitutional' approach that gives rise to as much opposition as support.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, emphasises the ‘fatigue' of the Member States concerning the process of revision of the treaties and the need to go beyond the withdrawal procedure provided by the Lisbon Treaty and make the procedure for revising the treaties more flexible.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, describes the attitude of Margaret Thatcher during the Community negotiations on the Single Market and on Economic and Monetary Union.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, reaffirms his belief that the concept of differentiation, or enhanced cooperation — allowing some Member States to move further ahead or at a faster pace — stimulates the process of European integration, as with the Schengen Agreements or the euro zone, and could be used again to restore the balance of the economic dimension of EMU.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, gives his thoughts on the success of the EU's enlargements, seen from a historical perspective that will continue to develop, and explains that he is therefore of the view that negotiations should be held for Turkey's accession.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, looks back at the circumstances surrounding his appointment as President of the Commission of the European Communities in 1985, and again in 1989 and 1993.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, discusses the statement that he made for the television channel Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, discusses the controversy surrounding the negotiations on the Maastricht Treaty, in particular in the area of the CFSP, the convergence criteria for EMU, the ‘temple' structure of the European Union, and the Social Protocol.