EUI Jean Monnet Lectures

"Allow me to explain to you in a few words why we have given this annual lecture the name of Jean Monnet (...) There are very few men of whom you can say, 'without him the European Community would not have existed'. It can be said of Jean Monnet - and that is why we are so pleased that he has agreed to the lectures being given his name. (...)

Allow me simply to express my profoundest admiration for the great statesman, who was a great statesman without ever forming part of a government, for that French peasant who is the first honorary citizen of Europe, for that man of action who was always guided in his action by a deep wisdom and by that rare kind of intelligence that is always able to select the essential, for that man with an iron will and an unflagging tenacity who is at the same time a great-hearted man, a man who has made all who have had the privilege to know him not only his admirers but also his friends.

It is to mark our deep gratitude and admiration for the man and his work that we are pleased and proud that he has kindly agreed to having this annual lecture series bear his name."

Max Kohnstamm
President of the European University Institute
(From his introduction to the first Jean Monnet Lecture)

Jean Monnet Lectures 1977-2006

25th Lecture
José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission,
Uniting in Peace: Law as the Foundation and Flame of Europe
31 March 2006
24th Lecture
Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament,
The Challenges of the Enlarged Europe
2 June 2003
23rd Lecture
Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland,
The Future of the European Union After Nice
9 April 2001
22nd Lecture
Prof. Giuliano Amato,
President of the Italian Council of Ministers,
From Nice to Europe, en
20 November 2000
21st Lecture
H.E. Mary McAleese,
President of the Republic of Ireland,
Europe - The Challenges of The New Millennium, en
9 February 1999
20th Lecture
On. Prof. Romano Prodi, Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri,
L'Industria e la Finanza Europee nella competizione internazionale,
it - en
20 March 1998
19th Lecture
Dr. Hans Tietmeyer,
Präsident der Deutschen Bundesbank,
Die europäische Wirtschaft zwischen globalen Märkten und internen Herausforderungen,
de - en
28 November 1996
18th Lecture
M. Jacques Santer,
Président de la Commission européenne
L'avenir de l'Europe. Quel rôle pour la Commission? Eloge de la méthode communitaire, en
20 October 1995
17th Lecture
Dr. Peter D. Sutherland,
Director-General of the World Trade Organization,
The European Union - A stage of transition,
en - fr
10 Febuary 1995
16th Lecture
Dr. Egon Klepsch,
Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments,
Die Zeit nach Maastricht: Die großen Herausforderungen Europas - Die Rollen des europäischen Parlaments
10 November 1993
15th Lecture
On. Giovanni Agnelli,
Senatore,
Il future dell'Europa
5 November 1992
14th Lecture
Prof. Ruud Lubbers,
Dutch Prime Minister,
Our Europe
26 October 1991
13th Lecture
Prof. Giovanni Spadolini, Presidente del Senato della Repubblica italiana,
La crisi delle società dell'Est e il ritorno all'Europa comune
23 November 1990

12th Lecture
H. E. Anibal Cavaco Silva,
Prime Minister of Portugal,
Portugal and Europe at the End of the Twentieth Century
24 November 1989
11th Lecture
H.E. Patrick J. Hillery,
President of the Republic of Ireland,
Ar Scáth a Chéile
We are all so interdependent that every action by each one of us affects in some way or other the welfare and destiny of the rest of us
1 December 1988
10th Lecture
Felipe Gonzales Marquez, Sr.,
Presidente del Gobierno,
Europa de la comunidad de los doce a la Unión Europea: Objetivo 1992
19 Octobre 1987
Ninth Lecture
Jacques Delors,
Président de la Commission européenne,
L'Acte unique et l'Europe : un moment de vérité
21 November 1986
Eighth Lecture
On. Giulio Andreotti,
Ministro degli Affari esteri,
Unione europea: un personaggio in cerca d'autore
23 November 1985
Seventh Lecture
M. Gaston Thorn,
Union européenne ou déclin : être ou ne pas être ?
24 May 1984
Sixth Lecture
On. Altiero Spinelli,
Verso l'Unione europea
13 July 1983
Fifth Lecture
Max Kohnstamm,
Président sortant de l'Institut universitaire européen,
Le pouvoir de l'imagination
23 novembre 1981
Fourth Lecture
Simone Weil,
Président du Parlement européen,
La Communauté et l'identité europeéenne
27 November 1980
Third Lecture
Prof. Ralf Dahrendorf,
Director of the London School of Economics
A Third Europe?
26 November 1979
Second Lecture
On. Emilio Colombo,
Presidente del Parlamento europeo,
Appuntamenti per l'Europa
9 November 1978
First Lecture
Roy Jenkins,
President of the European Commission,
Europe's Present Challenges and Future Opportunity
27 October 1977