Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, awarded a Doctorate, honoris causa, from the Babes-Bolyai University

© European Parliament Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

© European Parliament Interview with EP Newshound Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

© European Parliament Interview with EP Newshound Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

© European Parliament Interview with EP Newshound

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

© European Parliament Official Visit of Mahmoud Abbas to the European Parliament

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (on the left), and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority

© European Parliament Official Visit of Mahmoud Abbas to the European Parliament

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (on the left), and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority

Audience with Pope Benedict XVI

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

© European Parliament Visit of the Dalai Lama to the European Parliament

l-r: His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, and Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

© European Parliament Visit of the Dalai Lama to the European Parliament

l-r: His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, and Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

© Erik Luntang, EUP Images Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, at the European Voice awards ceremony

© European Parliament Formal opening of the first sitting of the enlarged European Parliament

Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (left), and Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Peace

© European Parliament Formal opening of the first sitting of the enlarged European Parliament

l-r: Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament, Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Peace, and Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Otto von Habsburg "Honorary Member" of the EPP-ED Group

from left to right: Egon Klepsch, former President of the European Parliament and former Chairman of the EPP Group, Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Fabienne Keller, Mayor of Strasbourg, Pat Cox, President of the European Parliament, and Otto von Habsburg, Honorary Member of the EPP-ED Group

© European Parliament EPP-ED Group awards the Schuman Medal to José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain

José María Aznar, Prime Minister of Spain, and Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Official Visit of Alexander Milinkevich to the European Parliament

Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (on the right), welcomes Alyaksandar Milinkevich, leader of the main opposition party of Belarus

The Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel awarding Hans Gert Poettering, Chairman of the Group of the European People”s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament (EPP-ED) with the Grand Golden Order for Services to the Republic of Austria. The ceremony took place at Poettering’s home-town of Bad Iburg (Lower Saxony)

Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, presenting the Robert Schuman Medal to His Holiness Pope John Paul II in honour of his outstanding contribution to the integration of Europe

Hans-Gert Poettering is received by the Pope John Paul II in his private chapel in the Vatican

Hans-Gert Poettering is received by the Pope John Paul II in his private chapel in the Vatican

© European Parliament Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

EPP-ED Chairman's Information tour through new Member States

EPP-ED Chairman Hans-Gert Poettering opening the 50. Ostrzeszow International run

Fiftieth Anniversary of the EPP-ED Group

Hans-Gert Poettering, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group addressing the ceremony

On the occasion of the signing of the EU Financial Perspectives 2007-2013

l-r: Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, and Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of Austria and President-in-Office of the European Council

On the occasion of the signing of the EU Financial Perspectives 2007-2013

l-r: Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of Austria and President-in-Office of the European Council, and Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group

© European Parliament Constitutive meeting of the EPP-ED Group

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), re-elected Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament and Françoise Grossetête MEP (France), re-elected Vice-chairwoman of the EPP-ED Group

Constitutive meeting of the EPP-ED Group

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), re-elected Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament and Françoise Grossetête MEP (France), re-elected Vice-chairwoman of the EPP-ED Group

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

Hans-Gert Poettering MEP (Germany), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament