Humboldt Speeches on Europe

The series Humboldt Speeches on Europe has been held at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 2000 . They are hosted by the Walter Hallstein Institute and organized by Matthias Ruffert , who took over the institute from Ingolf Pernice in spring 2016 .

Joschka Fischer gave the first speech in the auditorium maximum of the university. In it he presented his ideas for the future of Europe. This event stimulated further speeches, which were mostly given by incumbent or former heads of state and government.

Previous speakers

The following list names the speakers and their respective positions at the time of the speech.

Date of speech	Speaker	origin	Office
May 12, 2000	Joschka Fischer	Germany	Foreign minister
November 8, 2000	Helmut Schmidt	Germany	Former Federal Chancellor
October 18, 2001	Göran Persson	Sweden	Prime Minister
February 12, 2002	Giuliano Amato	Italy	Former Prime Minister , Vice-President-designate of the European Convention
June 26, 2003	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	Italy	President
November 25, 2003	Guy Verhofstadt	Belgium	prime minister
May 12, 2005	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	Netherlands	NATO Secretary General
June 2, 2005	Bertie Ahern	Ireland	Prime Minister
November 21, 2005	Jean-Claude Juncker	Luxembourg	Prime Minister, Chairman of the Eurogroup
March 9, 2006	Lech Kaczynski	Poland	President
November 1, 2006	Richard von Weizsäcker	Germany	Former Federal President
November 9, 2006	Valery Giscard d'Estaing	France	Former President of the Republic , Former President of the European Convention
May 14, 2007	Hans-Gert Poettering	Germany	President of the European Parliament
November 27, 2007	Giorgio Napolitano	Italy	President
February 26, 2008	Mary McAleese	Ireland	President of the Republic
July 10, 2008	Giuliano Amato	Italy	Former Prime Minister , Former Vice-President of the European Convention
October 23, 2008	Toomas Hendrik Ilves	Estonia	President
May 27, 2009	Angela Merkel	Germany	Chancellor
December 1, 2009	Norbert Lammert	Germany	President of the German Bundestag
March 10, 2010	François Fillon	France	prime minister
March 22, 2010	Jerzy Buzek	Poland	President of the European Parliament
April 29, 2010	Václav Klaus	Czech Republic	President
October 25, 2010	Jorge Sampaio	Portugal	President
February 21, 2011	Giorgos Andrea Papandreou	Greece	Prime Minister
September 18, 2011	Abdullah Gul	Turkey	President
October 24, 2011	Jean-Claude Trichet	France	President of the ECB
February 7, 2012	Herman van Rompuy	Belgium	President of the European Council
May 24, 2012	Martin Schulz	Germany	President of the European Parliament
June 27, 2013	Milos Zeman	Czech Republic	President of the Czech Republic
May 8, 2014	José Manuel Durão Barroso	Portugal	EU Commission President
May 4, 2015	Bohuslav Sobotka	Czech Republic	Prime Minister
July 1, 2015	Matteo Renzi	Italy	Prime Minister
September 21, 2015	Vladis Dombrovskis	Latvia	Former Prime Minister, Vice-President of the European Commission , Commissioner for the euro and social dialogue
October 22, 2015	Andreas Vosskuhle	Germany	President of the Federal Constitutional Court
May 25, 2016	Mario Monti	Italy	Former Prime Minister , Senator for life of the Italian Republic
January 25, 2018	Susanne Baer	Germany	Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court , professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin
1st February 2018	Ineta Ziemele	Latvia	President of the Latvian Constitutional Court, former judge of the European Court of Human Rights
February 7, 2018	Paolo Gentiloni	Italy	Prime Minister
June 13, 2018	Simon Coveney	Ireland	Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Ireland
15th October 2018	Cecilia Malmström	Sweden	EU Commissioner for Trade
November 28, 2018	Olaf Scholz	Germany	Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance
May 7, 2019	Wopke Hoekstra	Netherlands	Finance minister
18th June 2019	Jacek Czaputowicz	Poland	Foreign minister

Web links

• Website of the Walter Hallstein Institute