Published on 22 November 1991 in the Spanish daily newspaper El País, this article reports on the opening, in June 1992, of the Satellite Centre of Western European Union (WEU) in Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain, and reports on the tasks and resources that will be assigned to this operational body.

On 21 November 2007, at the inauguration ceremony in Vienna for the new seat of the Secretariat of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), King Juan Carlos I of Spain receives a gift from Ursula Plassnik, Austrian Foreign Minister, and Martin Bartenstein, Austrian Federal Minister for the Economy and Labour.

In 2007, Spain holds the Presidency of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). This photo, taken on 27 February 2007, shows Miguel Ángel Moratinos (sitting, in the middle) with the Spanish members of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

On 18 January 1979, the European Parliament adopts a resolution in which it expresses its support for the enlargement of the European Communities to include Greece, Spain and Portugal.

On 11 February 2005, on the eve of the referendum held in Spain on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero delivers an address in Barcelona in support of the European Constitution.

In this interview, Carlos María Bru Purón, Chairman of the Spanish Federal Council of the European Movement from 1986 to 1996 and since 2004, compares Spain's regional policy with other European regions in terms of the principles of autonomy, participation, solidarity and multilevel governance which aim to encourage citizens' participation in European policy.

In this interview, Manuel Marín, First Vice-President of the European Commission from 1993 to 1999, gives his views on the emergence of a new era following the end of the Cold War. He also compares Spain’s ‘return to Europe’ with that of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and discusses the impact on Spain, in terms of ‘budgetary solidarity’, of this enlargement to the East.

On 29 October 2004, at the ceremonial signing of the Treaty in Rome of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, Josep Borrell, President of the European Parliament, gives an address in which he emphasises the role played by the Assembly in the drafting of the text as well as the main contributions of the new Treaty by comparison with preceding Treaties.

On 12 June 1985, the RTL editorial team looks back at the diplomatic negotiations that led to the accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities on 1 January 1986.

Transcription of the interview with Josep Borrell Fontelles, Spanish Minister for Public Works (1991–1996), Member of the European Parliament (1996–2004), Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe (2002–2003) and President of the European Parliament (2004–2007), carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 13 July 2011 in San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence). The interview was conducted by Cristina Blanco Sío-López, a Researcher at the CVCE, and particularly focuses on the following subjects: the origins of his European commitment; Spain’s accession to the European Communities; the EU’s interinstitutional relations and, in particular, the role of the European Parliament and the Socialist Group in the European integration process; the Convention on the Future of Europe; the potential of the Treaty of Lisbon; and his experience at the head of the Joint Committee for EU Affairs, the European Parliament and the European University Institute.