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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9303
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/borrell presidency

Results of two and a half years of Presidency are largely positive

Brussels, 09/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - Delivering a speech at Real Instituto Elcano on 6 November to sum up the results of two and a half years of European Parliament presidency, Josep Borrell said: “On 20 July, I found myself at the head of a Parliament with 732 MEPs of 25 different nationalities and from 163 political parties. There were 20 different official languages (…) and 60% of the representatives elected were from new Member States (…) Would the alchemy work, I asked myself....

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