Am 19. Mai 1979 bringt der belgische sozialistische Abgeordnete Hervé Brouhon in der Tageszeitung Le Soir seine Freude über die bald stattfindenden ersten Wahlen des Europäischen Parlaments in allgemeiner Direktwahl zum Ausdruck und unterstreicht deren Bedeutung für seine Partei.
On 10 June 1979, polling stations set up in Brussels for the first election of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage welcome the first of the City’s voters.
On 10 July 1979, a display board shows campaign posters for the various Luxembourg political parties in the run-up to the European and parliamentary elections in Luxembourg.
On 10 June 1979, the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage are held. Some schools are used as polling stations, like here in Luxembourg City.
On 10 June 1979, Pierre Werner, MP and leader of the parliamentary group of the Luxembourg Christian Social Party, answers questions from a journalist during the elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage in Luxembourg. In the background, posters published during the campaign for the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage.
Mit Blick auf die erste allgemeinen Direktwahlen des Europäischen Parlaments im Juni 1979 geben die luxemburgischen Büros der Kommission und des Europäischen Parlaments eine Broschüre heraus, mit der den Bürgern die Funktionsweise des Gemeinschaftsorgane erklärt wird.
On 9-10 June 1979, the French newspaper Le Figaro publishes a cartoon by Piem illustrating the start of the first direct elections to the European Parliament.
French poster designed by Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon for the campaign preceding the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage (10 June 1979).
On 12 June 1979, after the first elections to the European Parliament (EP) by direct universal suffrage, French daily newspaper Le Monde gives an overview, country by country, of the results of the ballot.
On 20 June 1979, French daily newspaper Le Monde harshly criticises the campaign preceding the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage and condemns the results of the vote.
En juillet 1979, Jean-Pierre Gouzy, l'éditorialiste de la revue fédéraliste L'Europe en formation revient sur le faible taux de participation aux premières élections européennes au suffrage universel et insiste sur les responsabilités des nouveaux élus.
In this interview, Édith Cresson, Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981, describes her experience of the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage in 1979.
In this interview, Jean François-Poncet, former French Foreign Minister, discusses the debates caused in France, in particular within part of the Parliamentary right wing, by the election of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage in 1979.
Am 10. Dezember 1978, dem Europa-Parteitag der SPD, verabschiedet die Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands ihr Programm für die erste Direktwahl des europäischen Parlamentes.
'Towards me!' 'Ow! Ouch! I thought we wanted a united Europe ...' The cartoonist in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung portrays the European political parties as fighting over the leadership of Europe on the occasion of the first direct elections to the European Parliament (EP).
Im Vorfeld der Europawahlen vom 9. Juni 1979 richtet sich der deutsche Bundespräsident Walter Scheel am 6. Juni über das Fernsehen an das deutsche Volk.
Am 7. Juni 1979, in einem Kommentar zur ersten Direktwahl des Europaparlamentes, unterstreicht die Tageszeitung Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung die Wichtigkeit der Wahlbeteiligung und deren Auswirkungen.
On 9 June 1979, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung publishes a cartoon by Behrendt portraying the elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage as a historic opportunity to reunite the European peoples and to put an end to the drawn out fratricidal wars.
In July 1978, one year before the first elections to the European Parliament by universal suffrage are held in June 1979, Franco Foschi, Junior Minister in the Italian Foreign Ministry, considers the lengthy process which led to the direct election of the Parliament.
In 1977, the British Labour Party publishes a pamphlet setting out the instructions given to the party’s candidates for the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage.
In his editorial of 4-5 April 1977, Emanuele Gazzo, Editor-in-Chief of Agence Europe, comments on some of the proposals contained in the British white paper on the voting procedure to be applied in the United Kingdom for the first direct elections to the European Parliament.
On 18 May 1979, Margaret Thatcher, the newly elected British Prime Minister, announces the publication of the Conservative Party Manifesto for the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, to be held in one month’s time.
Am 28. Mai 1979 analysiert die Tageszeitung Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung die Einstellung der britischen Politiker und der Öffentlichkeit zur ersten Direktwahl des Europa- Parlament, welche einen Monat später stattfindet.
On 8 June 1979, New Zealand cartoonist Leslie Gibbard takes an ironic look at the helplessness of British political leaders amid the voters’ lack of interest in the first elections to the European Parliament by universal suffrage.
‘Europa and her bull.’ In June 1979, commenting on the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, the German cartoonist, Horst Haitzinger, takes an ironic look at the ancient myth of ‘The Rape of Europa’ to illustrate the low turnout at the European elections.
In June 1979, alluding to the first elections to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, the German cartoonist, Felix Mussil, speculates on the real powers of the European Parliament and on the national interests that are undermining the European integration process.
Am 18. Juli 1979 kommentieren die luxemburgische Europaabgeordnete Colette Flesch und der luxemburgische Innenminister Jean Wolter die Wahl Simone Veils zur Präsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments.