In this interview, Jacques F. Poos, Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004, explains how Parliament decides on the number of parliamentary committees and on their powers and composition.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, discusses the aptness of the functionalist theory of the ‘spillover effect' in the area of economics, while emphasising its limitations in terms of political union.

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, describes the context in which the intergovernmental conference was opened, and emphasises the influence of the European Commission and the Luxembourg Presidency in the negotiations that led to the adoption of the Single European Act, Delors' ‘favourite treaty'.

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.

In this interview excerpt, Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communities from 1985 to 1995, looks back at the circumstances in which the subsidiarity principle was introduced, and considers the scope of this principle.