Viktor YUSHCHENKO, President of Ukraine
Joschka FISCHER, German Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean-Luc DEHAENE, Prime Minister of Belgium (Bruges)
François-Xavier ORTOLI, President of the Commission of the European Communities
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Opening Ceremonies
Each year the College invites distinguished guest speakers to the Opening Ceremonies for the Bruges and the Natolin (Warsaw) campuses. Guest speakers have included:
| 2024-2025 | Ms Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the European Commission (Bruges) » read more... |
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| 2023-2024 |
Mr Petr PAVEL, President of the Czech Republic (Bruges) |
| 2022-2023 |  Ms Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament (Bruges) |
| 2021-2022 |  Mr Alexander de Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium (Bruges) |
 Ms Olha STEFANISHYNA, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2020-2021 |  Mr Marcelo REBELO DE SOUSA, President of Portugal (Bruges)» read more... |
 Mrs Sviatlana TSIKHANOUSKAYA, Leader of the Democratic Belarus (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2019-2020 |  Mr Donald TUSK, President of the European Council (Bruges)» read more... |
 (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2018-2019 |  Mr Antonio TAJANI, President of the European Parliament (Bruges)» read more... |
 Mr Tibor NAVRACSICS, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2017-2018 |  Mr António COSTA, Prime Minister of Portugal (Bruges)» read more... |
 Mr Andrzej DUDA, President of the Republic of Poland (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2016-2017 | Mr Jean-Claude JUNCKER, President of the European Commission (Bruges) » read more... |
 Mrs Ivanna KLYMPUSH-TSINTSADZE, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2015-2016 |  Mr Alexander STUBB, Minister of Finance of Finland (Bruges) |
 Mr Johannes HAHN, European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy & Enlargement Negotiations (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2014-2015 |  Mr Mariano RAJOY, President of the Government of Spain (Bruges) |
2013-2014
|  Mr Iñigo MENDEZ DE VIGO, President of the Administrative Council of the College of Europe and Spanish Secretary of State for the European Union (Bruges) |
 Mr Bronisław KOMOROWSKI, President of the Republic of Poland (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
2012-2013
| Mrs Helle THORNING-SCHMIDT, Prime Minister of Denmark (Bruges)  » read more... |
Mr Vladimir FILAT, Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova (Natolin (Warsaw))  » read more... | |
2011-2012
|  President Giorgio NAPOLITANO, President of the Republic of Italy (Bruges) |
 Mr José M. DURAO BARROSO, President of the European Commission (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2010-2011 |  Mrs Angela MERKEL, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bruges) |
 Mr Štefan FÜLE, Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2009-2010 |  Mr. Jerzy BUZEK, President of the European Parliament (Bruges) |
 President Toomas Hendrik ILVES, President of the Republic of Estonia (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2008-2009 |  Mr. Yves LETERME, Prime Minister of Belgium (Bruges) |
 Mr. Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, President of the European Parliament (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2007-2008 |  The Rt Hon David MILIBAND, Member of Parliament for South Shields and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Bruges) |
 Carl BILDT, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2006-2007 |  Jean-Claude JUNCKER, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Minister of State, and Minister of Finance (Bruges) |
 Aliaksandr MILINKEVICH, Leader of the opposition in Belarus (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2005-2006 |  Javier SOLANA, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union (Bruges) |
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| 2004-2005 |  José M. DURAO BARROSO, President of the European Commission |
 Josep Borrell FONTELLES, President of the European Parliament (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2003-2004 |
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 Danuta HÜBNER, Polish Minister of European Affairs (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2002-2003 |  Valéry GISCARD D’ESTAING, President of the European Convention (Bruges) |
 Erhard BUSEK, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2001-2002 |  Aleksander KWASNIEWSKI, President of Poland (Bruges) |
 Guy VERHOFSTADT, Prime Minister of Belgium (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 2000-2001 |  George PAPANDREOU, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece (Bruges) |
 Jan KULAKOWSKI, Minister Plenipotentiary, Chief Negotiator of Poland for the EU Accession Negotiations (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 1999-2000 |  Jacques DELORS, President of the Administrative Board of the College of Europe (Bruges) |
Jacques DELORS, President of the Administrative Board of the College of Europe (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 1998-1999 |
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| H.R.H. Prince Philippe of Belgium (Natolin (Warsaw)) » read more... | |
| 1997-1998 |  Antonio GUTERRES, Prime Minister of Portugal (Bruges) |
 Ursula STENZEL, Member of the European Parliament (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 1996-1997 |  Wim KOK, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Bruges) |
 Aleksander KWASNIEWSKI, President of Poland (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 1995-1996 |  Klaus HÄNSCH, President of the European Parliament (Bruges) |
 Jacques SANTER, President of the European Commission (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 1994-1995 |  H.M. King Juan Carlos I of Spain (Bruges) |
 Andrzej OLECHOWSKI, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (Natolin (Warsaw)) | |
| 1993-1994 |  Thomas KLESTIL, President of Austria |
| 1992-1993 |  Jacques SANTER, Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg |
| 1991-1992 |  Flavio COTTI, President of the Swiss Confederation |
| 1990-1991 |  Richard VON WEIZSÄCKER, President of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1989-1990 |  Jacques DELORS, President of the Commission of the European Communities |
| 1988-1989 |  Margaret THATCHER, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 1987-1988 |  François MITTERRAND, President of France |
| 1986-1987 |  Ruud F.M. LUBBERS, Prime Minister of the Netherlands |
| 1985-1986 |  Felipe GONZALEZ, President of the Spanish government |
| 1984-1985 |  Altiero SPINELLI, President of the Institutional Commision of the European Parliament |
| 1983-1984 |  Garret FITZGERALD, Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland |
| 1982-1983 |  Gaston E. THORN, President of the Commission of the European Communities |
| 1981-1982 |  Bruno KREISKY, Federal Chancellor of Austria |
| 1980-1981 |  Simone VEIL, President of the European Parliament |
| 1979-1980 |  Andries VAN AGT, Prime Minister of the Netherlands |
| 1978-1979 | Guy SPITAELS, Belgian Minister for Employment and Labour » read more... |
| 1977-1978 |  Mario SOARES, Prime Minister of Portugal |
| 1976-1977 |  Leo TINDEMANS, Prime Minister of Belgium |
| 1975-1976 |  Edgar FAURE, President of the French National Assembly |
| 1974-1975 |
Herman DE CROO, Belgian Minister of National (Flemish) Education |
| 1973-1974 |  Karl Otto PÖHL, Secretary of State with the Ministry of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1972-1973 | Lord GEORGE-BROWN, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Kingdom |
| 1971-1972 |  Altiero SPINELLI, Member of the Commission of the European Communities |
| 1970-1971 |  Jean REY, President of the Administrative Board of the College of Europe |
| 1969-1970 |  H.R.H. Prince Albert of Belgium |
| 1968-1969 | Robert VAN SCHENDEL, Secretary-General of the European Movement and Executive Director of the College of Europe |
| 1967-1968 |  Alfons DE VREESE, professor and Counsellor of the Court of Cassation of Belgium |
| 1966-1967 | Jean REY, Member of the Commission of the European Communities, President of the Administrative Board of the College of Europe |
| 1964-1965 |  Don Salvador DE MADARIAGA, President of the Administrative Board of the College of Europe |
| 1962-1963 |  Pierre HARMEL, former Belgian Minister, future Belgian Prime Minister |
| 1961-1962 | Hugo GEIGER, President of the Commission for Research and Culture of the European Parliamentary Assembly |
| 1949 | J. VAN HOESTENBERGHE Don Salvador DE MADARIAGA |