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Mr President, I would like to congratulate you most warmly on your election to the presidency of the European Parliament. This appointment represents the pinnacle of the political career of a loyal, convinced Europeanist, and I am therefore looking forward with great enthusiasm to building a relationship of cooperation with you that I hope will be close and fruitful, just as our relationship of cooperation with Mrs Fontaine was close and fruitful and enabled us to develop a relationship between Commission and Parliament that I feel was truly exemplary. Indeed, close, constructive cooperation between our institutions is the key to the smooth running of the entire Community system, and I am sure that, with you at the helm, this cooperation will be guaranteed.
Ladies and gentlemen, your role of monitoring and supervising the Commission’s performance of its executive duties is vital to the smooth running and transparency of the Community system. This principle of transparency must underlie the major processes on which our institutions are working at this great, historic time: enlargement and the process of developing a Constitution, the debate on which was opened for the first time just a few weeks ago at Laeken and will continue here in a few months’ time.
This House directly represents the European citizens, and it is clear that it has the primary task of building the new Europe. Working together, Parliament and the Commission can and must show that it is possible to build a new relationship between the citizens and the European institutions.
Once again, Mr President, congratulations on your election. I and my fellow Commissioners look forward to working with you towards this goal."@en1
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