We first met in Strasbourg in November 2002 before the important staging post of the Copenhagen Summit that December, observing that it would give us in the European Parliament the opportunity to cope with Europe’s new political and cultural diversity and respectively allow us to engage in a process of mutual understanding and political socialisation.
Thángamar le chéile den chéad uair in Strasbourg i mí na Samhna 2002 roimh chéim thábhachtach chruinniú mullaigh Chóbanhávan i mí na Nollag mar gur chreideamar go mbeadh deis againn dul i dtaithí ar éagsúlacht nua pholaitiúil agus chultúrtha na hEorpa agus go mbeadh páirt ag gach duine againn sa phróiseas comhthuisceana agus sa sóisialú polaitiúil.