On 19 April 2005, a French Socialist Party (PS) activist puts up posters in Paris calling for a ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum to be held on 29 May 2005 in France for the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

On 14 December 1996, at the end of the Dublin European Council, Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), holds a press conference in which he expresses his satisfaction at the results achieved by the Fifteen.

On 13 December 1996, on the margins of the Dublin European Council, Alexandre Lamfalussy, Belgian President of the European Monetary Institute (EMI), presents to the press the design of the future euro banknotes.

On 14 December 1996, at the end of the Dublin European Council, Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission, holds a press conference in which he reveals the timetable for the forthcoming enlargement of the European Union and expresses his support for the necessary institutional reforms.

On 14 December 1996, at the end of the Dublin European Council, John Major, British Prime Minister, holds a press conference in which he gives his views on the launch, on 1 January 1999, of the third stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and explains the reservations of the British people regarding the single currency.

On 10 November 1989, the day after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Willy Brandt, former Mayor of Berlin and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), delivers an address in the John F. Kennedy Platz in which he emphasises the historic dimension of the fall of the Wall and places the event in the context of European unification.

On 15 July 1990, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Foreign Minister, Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, and Helmut Kohl, German Chancellor, meet in Zheleznovodsk, in the Caucasus, to consider together the process of German reunification.

On 15 July 1990, the Federal German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, meets Mikhail Gorbachev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, in Stavropol, in the Caucasus, to discuss German reunification.

At the Essen European Council of 9 and 10 December 1994, the Twelve define a pre-accession strategy in order to prepare the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) for the progressive integration of the Community acquis into their national law.

At the Essen European Council (9–10 December 1994), the Twelve determine a pre-accession strategy to prepare the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) for the gradual incorporation of the Community acquis into their national legislation. From left to right: Klaus Kinkel (German Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union), Helmut Kohl (German Chancellor and President-in-Office of the European Council) and Theodor Waigel (German Finance Minister).

On 23 April 1998, in the Bundestag, a group of MPs from the Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus — PDS), led here by the protest leader, Gregor Gisy, demonstrate their opposition to the introduction of the single currency in Germany.