Z prośbą o uczczenie pamięci Geremka zwrócił się do gospodarza spotkania - prezydenta Francji Nicolasa Sarkozy'ego - prezydent Polski Lech Kaczyński.
Bronisława Geremka wspominali w rozmowie z dziennikarzami przywódcy europejscy; kondolencje złożyli m.in. szef Komisji Europejskiej Jose Manuel Barroso i przewodniczący Parlamentu Europejskiego Hans-Gert Poettering.
W niedzielę wieczorem zakończyła się kilkugodzinna sesja spotkania powołującego oficjalnie Unię dla Śródziemnomorza. Wieczorem uczestnicy spotkania zostali zaproszeni na uroczystą kolację do Petit Palais przez parę prezydencką - Nicolasa Sarkozy'ego i Carlę Bruni-Sarkozy.
Po kolacji ma odbyć się dwustronna rozmowa Lecha Kaczyńskiego z prezydentem Francji. Zaplanowano także spotkania polskiego prezydenta z Barroso, a także kanclerz Niemiec Angelą Merkel i brytyjskim premierem Gordonem Brownem.
Professor Bronisław Geremek, a former Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, a member of European Parliament and chairman of the Freedom Union, has died today at the age of 76 in a car crash near Nowy Tomyśl, Poland. The accident occurred about 13:15 Polish time (12:15 UTC) along the way 92 near Lubień in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. 

According to the spokeswoman of the Greater Poland Voidodeships's police, Hanna Wachowiak, Geremek died when the Mercedes he was driving collided head-on with a Fiat Ducato on the road from Warsaw to the German border. The reason of Geremek's car crossing to the other side of the road and crashing into the oncoming car is still unknown. "The officers are investigating the reasons of the accident. They have interrogated first witnesses", said Mariusz Sokołowski, the spokesman of the Main Command of Police in an interview with the Polish news channel TVN 24. Bronisław Geremek was the only casualty of the crash; the driver of the Fiat and his passenger as well as the passenger of Geremek's Mercedes have been transported to hospitals in Poznań and Nowy Tomyśl. 

The daily ''Dziennik'' writes it was not the excessive speed which caused the crash. The newspaper's Internet news service informs that both cars were driving with the speed of 90-100 km/h (56-62 mph). The daily reports it is assumed that Bronisław Germemek might have collapsed when driving; other assumptions include a defect of the car. "It lasted for a split of seconds. I don't even know how it happened. I haven't seen anything wrong happening to professor", told Geremek's passenger the police officers.

Bronisław Geremek was born on March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland. Being a historian by training, he was an associate professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, ''PAN''), a member of the democratic opposition in the Polish People's Republic, a member of Sejm from 1989 to 2001 and a chairman of the political party Freedom Union. He served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from October 31, 1997 to June 30, 2000. He was also a member of the European Parliament from July 20, 2004 onwards. 

Bronisław Geremek is survived by two sons.