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Together with [[Volker Hassemer]] he is a member of the advisory board of the pro-European initiative "[[A soul for Europe|A Soul for Europe]]". He was a member of the [[Reconciliation of European Histories Group]].<ref name="REH">{{cite web|title= About Us – Reconciliation of European Histories Group|date=21 April 2010|url=http://eureconciliation.wordpress.com/about/|publisher=[[Reconciliation of European Histories Group]]|access-date=1 August 2011}}</ref>
===President of the European Parliament, 2007–2009===
[[File:Flickr - europeanpeoplesparty - EPP Congress Warsaw (266).jpg|thumb|Pöttering with President of the European Commission [[José Manuel Barroso]] at the [[European People's Party|EPP]] Congress in Warsaw, 29 April 2009]]
As part of a deal with the socialist group, it was agreed that he would succeed [[Josep Borrell Fontelles]] as President of the European Parliament in the second part of the 2004–2009 term, which he did on 16 January 2007. He was elected with 450 of 689 valid votes, and defeated Italian Green [[Monica Frassoni]], Danish Eurosceptic [[Jens-Peter Bonde]] and French Communist [[Francis Wurtz]].
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