Strasbourg / Brussels, 27/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - Pierre Pflimlin has died in Strasbourg, at the age of 93. He served several times as minister (and briefly prime minister, in 1958), MRP President, President of the Assembly of the Council of Europe and, from 1984 to 1987, President of the European Parliament.
Nicole Fontaine, President of the European Parliament, expressed her sadness at the death of "one of those historic Europeans who, since the end of the war" were "on every front...