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"Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you to the debate on the programme of the German Presidency of the Council, and to the President of the European Council, the German Federal Chancellor Mrs Angela Merkel, I extend a warm welcome to the European Parliament.
I also welcome the President of the Commission, Mr Barroso, whose very frequent participation in our debates is something we very much value, and, while he does attend as a matter of duty, I do hope he always enjoys the experience as well.
In your person, Madam Federal Chancellor, you symbolise the change that has occurred on our European continent. In 1979, when this Parliament was first directly elected by what were then the nine peoples of the European Community, Germany and our European continent were divided by minefields and barbed wire, and Berlin, the capital of your country, by a wall. You yourself were obliged to live in the unfree eastern part of your fatherland, which was eventually reunited on 3 October 1990. On 1 May 2004, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, together with Malta and Cyprus, joined us, to be followed at the beginning of this year by Bulgaria and Romania as members of the community of values – now comprising twenty-seven peoples – that makes up the European Union. You, Madam Federal Chancellor, are the first President of the European Council to come from that part of Europe that was formerly not free. Today, you represent the community of free peoples that is the European Union. Today, you will be addressing the democratically elected representatives of twenty-seven European peoples, amounting to nearly 500 million people. The European Parliament before which you will be standing is strong, self-assured and committed to European unity. That which, in 1979, appeared to be an unattainable mirage has now become reality, and that shows just how right it was and is that the policy of European integration should be founded on the values we share.
I will now invite you, Madam President of the European Council, to address the representatives of the citizens of the European Union."@en1
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