In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the Luxembourg Parliament from 1979 to 1989, discusses her activities as a Member of the Benelux Parliamentary Assembly during the same period.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the Luxembourg Parliament from 1979 to 1989, describes her activities as a member and head of the Christian Democratic/Conservative group in the North Atlantic Assembly. She particularly alludes to the role of mediator that Luxembourg traditionally assumes in international institutions.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the Luxembourg Parliament from 1979 to 1989, describes her active role in the drafting and adoption by Parliament of a Language Law on recognition of the Luxembourgish language.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the Luxembourg Parliament from 1979 to 1989, explains the decisive role she played in Parliament's adoption of a law that reformed the criteria for attribution of Luxembourg nationality by automatically granting nationality to all children born to Luxembourgish mothers.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the Luxembourg Parliament from 1979 to 1989, Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999 and since 2014, Member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2010 and Vice-President of the Commission from 2010 to 2014, describes the debates in Luxembourg over whether Luxembourgish should be promoted as an official language of the European Union. She also outlines the reasons why the question was ultimately dropped.

In this interview excerpt, Viviane Reding, Member of the Luxembourg Parliament from 1979 to 1989, Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999 and since 2014, Member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2010 and Vice-President of the Commission from 2010 to 2014, describes her memories of the decision by Pierre Werner, Luxembourg Minister of State and Prime Minister from 1959 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1984, not to stand in the 1984 parliamentary elections and to retire from politics.