It was my honour, as the President of the European Parliament, to give the first pro-European speech in the Spanish Cortes, solemnly convened in Madrid, and later to the Portuguese Parliament which, appropriately, was meeting in Lisbon.
B’onóir dom, mar Uachtarán ar Pharlaimint na hEorpa an chéad óráid a thabhairt ar thaobh na hEorpa in Cortes Generales na Spáinne, a tionóladh go solúnta i Maidrid agus tamall ina dhiaidh sin an óráid chéanna a thabhairt i láthair Pharlaimint na Portaingéile a tháinig le chéile i Liospóin.