In spring 2005, the Luxembourg Government launches a radio and television information campaign with the aim of informing the Luxembourg people of the implications of the referendum to be held in the country on 10 July 2005 for the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.

In this interview on 10 April 2005, Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, gives his views on the implications of the possible opening of negotiations for Croatia’s accession to the European Union.

In this interview on 10 April 2005, Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, gives his views on the implications of the possible opening with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) of negotiations for that country’s accession to the European Union.

In this interview on 10 April 2005, Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, gives his views on the terms for Turkey’s accession to the European Union.

In this interview on 10 April 2005, Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, gives his views on the European Union Neighbourhood Policy and, in particular, on relations between the Twenty-Five and Russia.

On 14 July 1999, the President of the European Parliament, the Spaniard José-Maria Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado, renames the three new Parliament buildings in Brussels. They are henceforth known as the Bertha von Suttner, the Altiero Spinelli and the Paul-Henri Spaak buildings. The ceremony is attended, in particular, by the daughter of the former Belgian Prime Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak.

In this interview on 10 April 2005, Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President-in-Office of the Council of the European Union, gives his views on the fears of the general public in Western Europe regarding the continuing enlargement of the European Union and on the repercussions that these fears might have on the results of the referenda for the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, to be held in the spring and summer of 2005 in France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

On 25 April 2005, in Luxembourg, Traian Basescu, President of Romania, and Siméon de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, sign the Treaty of Accession to the European Union for their respective countries.

On 16 May 2005, in Warsaw, at the third Summit of the Council of Europe, Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg Prime Minister and President-in-Office of the European Council, rules out the possibility of a renegotiation of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in the event of a ‘No’ vote in one of the referenda held for its ratification in certain European Union Member States.

The ‘No’ vote wins in the referenda held on 29 May in France and on 1 June in the Netherlands for the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.