Strasbourg, 04/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - The solemn sitting of the European Parliament enlarged to 788 members, on Monday evening in Strasbourg, was the first occasion for several MEPs from new Member States to take the floor in plenary session. The first to seize this opportunity was Hungarian Liberal Matyas Eörsi, who (speaking in Hungarian and in English) said: Europe is already strong but that, all together, we shall make it even stronger. Mr Eörsi, to whom the president of the Liberal Group, Graham Watson, had elegantly given up his place, is president of the Liberal and Democrat Group at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. We shall work for the whole of Europe to be "really reunited" in the future, with Romania, Bulgaria and also Croatia and Turkey and, in future, all the Balkan States, he said. President Cox welcomed the former Hungarian Prime Minister, Guyla Horn to the plenary. Michal Tomasz Kaminski, of Poland, who spoke on behalf of the Union of a Europe of Nations, recalled the fight carried out in his country by Solidarnosc and thanked Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan for having lent a hand to the adversaries of communism (he commented that he was proud to be able to speak in Polish at the plenary, the language spoken by forty million people). The leaders of the political groups of the EU15 Parliament each, in a sensitive manner, affirmed that the enlarged Union must remain a community of solidarity. Hans-Gert Pöttering, speaking for the EPP-ED, was forceful when stressing, like Enrique Baron on behalf of the Socialists, a warning: "We are now all in the same house, in the same family, and we all have the same laws, but not the same obligations". The president of the European United Left./ Nordic Greens Left, Francis Wurtz, wanted in this festive atmosphere to repeat the "existential question" that is often raised (and which, in his view, is still more legitimate after this enlargement): "What do you want to do together?". The copresident of the Greens/EFA Group, Monica Frassoni also, when speaking of "joy", recalled two main concerns: the European Constitution (that, she regretted, they do not yet have) and the division of Cyprus. The president of a Europe of Democracies and Diversities, Jens-Peter Bonde, welcomed the "Europe of Diversities" which means this new enlargement, while warning against a Europe where officials in Brussels have the last word. Marie-Françoise Garaud (NA, France), who cited the Pope on this occasion ("Europe is breathing with both lungs again"), insisted: "There cannot be a Europe without its States - otherwise it will be weak".