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Hans-Gert Pöttering EU Parliament's new President: "I want to serve the citizens of Europe"
In becoming the 26th President of the Parliament since 1952, Hans-Gert Pöttering reaches the culmination of a long political career. He is one of only 6 MEPs who have served since direct elections in 1979. In that time he has been a Christian Democrat Member for the Osnabrueck, Emsland and Ostfriesland region of Germany.
Mr Pöttering will lead the Parliament through to the 2009 European elections. During this period debates over Europe's energy resources, future enlargements of the Union and the EU Constitution are likely to figure prominently. Joseph Daul of France has already assumed the leadership of the EPP-ED - the largest bloc in the Parliament.
Last May in a speech he summed up his feelings about Europe: "I must say that, whenever I leave Europe and then return, I always have a profound feeling of gratitude to be back in Europe, because there is no other continent with as much diversity – including cultural diversity – as the continent of Europe and the European Union".
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