Pierre Pflimlin; Leader or European Parliament

Pierre Pflimlin, 93, former president of the European Parliament and the European Council. Pflimlin, the mayor of Strasbourg, France, from 1959 to 1983, was a lawyer with vast experience in government and a strong belief in a unified Europe. He became the European Council president in 1955, and then became finance minister and cooperation minister. A member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989, he served as its vice president and then became president in 1987. He had represented his region in the French National Assembly from 1946 to 1971. Pflimlin published his memoirs in 1991, titled “Memoirs of a European Under the Fourth and Fifth Republic.” On Tuesday in Strasbourg, France.