Concluding his speech, Mr Pöttering used the famous words of Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of the European Community, who said in 1950 about the European project: "We are not bringing together states, we are uniting people".
Uzrunu Hanss-Gerts Poterings noslēdza ar slavenajiem Žana Monē, viena no Eiropas Kopienu „tēviem”, 1950. gadā teiktajiem vārdiem: „Mēs neapvienojam valstis, mēs vienojam cilvēkus.”