On 2 May 1992, as the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) is signed in Oporto, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities, hopes that the establishment of the EEA will be a step towards the establishment of an enlarged Europe.

On 24 June 1994, at the Corfu European Council, Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, welcomes the signing by Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden of the Treaty of Accession to the European Union.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995 and Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981, describes the importance of his experience in economic and social matters as a member of the various committees of experts to which he was appointed by the European Commission.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, suggests that introducing the post of permanent President of the European Council was not necessary in the context of the Community system, but underlines the judicious choice made in appointing the Belgian Herman Van Rompuy to this new post.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, describes the imbalance between monetary union and the lack of coordination of economic policies, and discusses the publication of the 1993 White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness and Employment.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, describes the role played by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997, in establishing the Italian Government’s position in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union in 1992.

Press conference held at the Congress and Exhibition Centre in Madrid by Felipe González, Spanish Prime Minister, and Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, at the end of the European Council meeting which closed the first Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Communities.

Interview with Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, conducted by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 16 December 2009 at the Paris-based premises of the think tank ‘Notre Europe’, of which Jacques Delors is the founding director. The interview, conducted by Hervé Bribosia, Research Coordinator at the CVCE, particularly focuses on the following subjects: Delors’s appointment as President of the European Commission, the Single European Act, the accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the negotiations on the Maastricht Treaty, the subsidiarity principle, the work of the ‘Delors Committee’ on Economic and Monetary Union, the coordination of economic policies and the 1993 White Paper, the non-participation of some Member States in the single currency, the ‘Delors Packages’, a review of the Delors Commission and the Delors method.

Nach dem Europäischen Gipfel von Hannover vom 27. und 28. Juni 1988 geben der Präsident der Europäischen Kommission Jacques Delors und der deutsche Bundeskanzler und amtierende Ratsvorsitzende der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Helmut Kohl eine Pressekonferenz, auf der sie die Vorteile der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion (WWU) darlegen und erläutern, wie sie diese Union erreichen wollen.

Nach dem Europäischen Rat von Madrid erläutern Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, spanischer Ministerpräsident und amtierender Ratsvorsitzender der Europäischen Gemeinschaften, und Jacques Delors, Präsident der Europäischen Kommission, am 27. Juni 1989 die wichtigsten Punkte der drei Stufen, die schließlich zur Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion (WWU) führen sollen.