Tillad mig også, at jeg med stolthed erindrer, hvordan det i 1997 var Europa-Parlamentet, der i en betænkning, hvor Dimitris Tsasos og jeg var ordførere, vedtog at erstatte den mellemstatslige metode med den metode, som vi dengang benævnte fællesskabsmetoden til reform af traktaterne.
And it is with emotion that I would like to point out that, in 1997, it was this Parliament, in a report for which Mr Dimitris Tsasos and myself were rapporteurs, that approved the replacement of the intergovernmental method with what we then called the Community method for the reform of the Treaties.