In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, discusses the circumstances in which he was elected to the European Parliament in 1999.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, emphasises the differences between the work of a national MP and a Member of the European Parliament. He also describes his role as coordinator of the socialist group in the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Committee.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, describes how the socialist group in the European Parliament was organised in the 2000s.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, describes the work of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Committee, of which he was a member from 1999 to 2009.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, describes the role and work of the committees in the European Parliament.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, describes the role of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly set up by the agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP–EU), of which he was a member from 1999 to 2004.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, describes his work from 2004 to 2007 as a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). From 2009 to 2014 he was also a member of the delegation for relations with the countries of South-East Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, describes his activities from 2006 to 2011 as the Commissioner General for the Luxembourg pavilion at the Shanghai World’s Fair in 2010.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, shares his thoughts on the main stages that led from the signing of the Treaty of Nice in 2001 to the rejection of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe by referendum in France and the Netherlands in 2005.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, shares his thoughts on the enlargement of the European Union to include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, discusses the interinstitutional negotiations on the European Union’s 2007–2013 multiannual financial framework.

In this interview excerpt, Robert Goebbels, Luxembourg Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Transport from 1989 to 1994, Minister for the Economy, Public Works and Energy from 1994 to 1999 and a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2009, discusses his activities as a member of the European Parliament’s Temporary Committee on Human Genetics and Other New Technologies in Modern Medicine from December 2000 to January 2001.