In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission for Education, Culture, Youth, Media and Sport from 1999 to 2004, describes the circumstances surrounding her appointment to this post following the collective resignation of the European Commission under President Jacques Santer in March 1999.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission for Education, Culture, Youth, Media and Sport from 1999 to 2004, describes the criteria and method used to allocate her areas of responsibility within the European Commission headed by Romano Prodi.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission for Education, Culture, Youth, Media and Sport from 1999 to 2004, explains how the operation of the European Commission headed by Romano Prodi was affected by the collective resignation of the European Commission under President Jacques Santer in March 1999.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission for Education, Culture, Youth, Media and Sport from 1999 to 2004, emphasises how important it was, when the new European Commission under President Romano Prodi was appointed, for trust to be re-established between the Commission and the European Parliament. The relationship between the two institutions had been severely shaken with the collective resignation of the European Commission headed by Jacques Santer in March 1999.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission for Education, Culture, Youth, Media and Sport from 1999 to 2004, describes the first meeting of the College of Commissioners of the European Union under President Romano Prodi in 1999.