Speech: Statement by President Barroso on the election of the new President of the European Parliament, Mr Martin Schulz

Text of a speech by José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission, at the European Parliament, Strasbourg, 17 January 2012.

ESO: Background Information: The Struggle to Give the European Parliament Clout http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-struggle-to-give-the-european-parliament-clout/

Wikipedia: President of the European Parliament http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_European_Parliament

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Deutsche Welle, 17.1.12: Meet Martin Schulz, the EU's next parliamentary president http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15669214,00.html

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