Despite a boycott by Euro-skeptics, lawmakers on Tuesday elected a pro-European from Spain as its next president as the expanded European Parliament met for the first time
Published:
21 July 2004 y., Wednesday
The 732-member assembly chose Josep Borrell, a relatively unknown Spanish Socialist, to its top job.
The parliament vote was the first for hundreds of lawmakers from the 10 new member states - many from the former Soviet bloc - that joined the European Union in May.
Borrell received 388 votes and easily defeated two other contenders.
The 57-year old, who comes from the Catalonia region of Spain, succeeds outgoing president Pat Cox.
Taking up the presidential gavel, Borrell asked members to support him during his 2 1/2-year-term as head of the EU assembly and to push ahead with European integration.
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