The President welcomed Alexander Milinkevich, a candidate in the presidential elections in Belarus, who had taken his seat in the distinguished visitors' gallery.
Bogdan Klich, Elmar Brok, Camiel Eurlings, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Barbara Kudrycka, Vytautas Landsbergis, Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski and Charles Tannock, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group,
Monika Beňová, Jan Marinus Wiersma and Joseph Muscat, on behalf of the PSE Group,
Janusz Onyszkiewicz and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on behalf of the ALDE Group,
Elisabeth Schroedter, Marie Anne Isler Béguin and Milan Horáček, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,
Konrad Szymański, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Inese Vaidere and Rolandas Pavilionis, on behalf of the UEN Group