European Parliament
Zbigniew Zaleski (PPE-DE ). –
(PL)
Mr President, as far as external policy is concerned, the European Union has shown its weakness by not having a single standpoint. Presidencies, which are short-lived, may come and go, but a common platform of well-defined objectives must remain, at least over the long term, because at the end of the day the European Union must be a union not of governments, but of ordinary citizens, and this is a challenge that we must face, and in which I wish all actors of the European institutions success in 2007.
(ES)
Mr President, as your mandate is drawing to an end, I would like to thank you for your visits to Poland. I would like such visits to become a tradition of this House. The countries of Central and Eastern Europe will play a more important role in the European Union than that conferred on them up until now by the Member States of the Europe of Fifteen.

