It Is often said that the European Parliament is a powerless institution filled with self-important nobodies. This is most unfair. The parliament is crucially important to the shaping of European Union legislation. And students of recent history would have a great day people-spotting in the Strasbourg corridors. Among the characters they might bump into would be scions of Europe's political dynasties: a de Gaulle, a Macmillan, a Gil Robles. There are even politicians who have made their own names: Mario Soares, first prime minister of democratic Portugal, whose office notes that he is "holder of countless prizes from over 40 countries"; Antonio di Pietro, an Italian magistrate whose investigations into political corruption in the 1990s brought down governments; and Dany Cohn-Bendit, who led student revolts in Paris in 1968 and is now leader of the Greens.
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机译：人们常说，欧洲议会是一个无能为力的机构，充满了自负的野心。这是最不公平的。议会对欧洲联盟立法的制定至关重要。最近历史的学生将在史特拉斯堡走廊上度过美好的一天。他们可能会遇到的人物包括欧洲政治朝代的接班人：戴高乐，麦克米伦，吉尔·罗伯斯。甚至还有一些政客都有自己的名字：民主的葡萄牙首相马里奥·苏亚雷斯（Mario Soares），其办公室指出他是“来自40多个国家的无数奖项的持有者”；意大利地方法官安东尼奥·迪·彼得罗（Antonio di Pietro），他对1990年代政治腐败的调查使政府垮台。丹妮·科恩·本迪特（Dany Cohn-Bendit）于1968年在巴黎领导了学生起义，现在是绿色党的领袖。
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