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The European Parliament held a ceremony in its Strasbourg’s hemicycle on Tuesday.

Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, kicked off the commemoration of the creation of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952 by stressing it has since evolved into “the only directly elected multilingual, multi-party, transnational parliament in the world.”

Roberta Metsola said the parliament was not perfect and must keep reforming but that she was proud of its achievements.

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