On a few occasions I did perhaps ask certain colleagues to divest themselves of the mantle of national parliamentarian, in other words to cast off their partisan allegiances, so as to function a little more as Members of this House at the service of all EU citizens.
Nogle få gange har jeg måske bedt visse kolleger om at tage den nationale parlamentarikers briller af, glemme deres partitilhørsforhold og fungere lidt mere som medlemmer af Europa-Parlamentet i alle EU-borgeres tjeneste.