It is therefore time to give credit where it is due: to you, ladies and gentlemen, and, through you, to all the people of the European Union whom I have endeavoured to serve during the last two and a half years. ###>Le moment est donc venu de rendre des comptes: à vous, chers collègues et, à travers vous, à tous les citoyens de l'Union européenne que je me suis efforcé de servir pendant deux ans et demi.