In this interview, Nicole Fontaine, Vice-President of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999, discusses the circumstances surrounding her election to this post.

In this interview, Nicole Fontaine, Member of the European Parliament from 1984 to 2002, looks back at the circumstances which led to the adoption by the European Parliament, on 23 March 1999, of a resolution on the resignation of the European Commission presided by Jacques Santer and on the appointment of a new Commission.

In this interview, Nicole Fontaine, Vice-President (from 1989 to 1999) then President (from 1999 to 2002) of the European Parliament (EP), explains the tasks and difficulties involved in chairing sittings of the EP.