However, as European Parliament President, my sense of duty would have been to do so in Parliament in Strasbourg just weeks before the continental scale upcoming parliamentary elections in June of that year, underlining its role as the theatre of European politics.
B’Uachtarán Pharlaimint na hEorpa mé, áfach, agus de ghrá an dualgais, theastaigh uaim an ócáid a cheiliúradh in Strasbourg cúpla seachtain roimh na toghcháin pharlaiminteacha a reachtáladh ar fud na mórranna i Meitheamh na bliana sin, chun béim a chur ar a ról mar ardán na polaitíochta Eorpaí.