Killarney, 06/07/2011
President,
General Secretary,
Dear friends, brothers and sisters trade unionists,
I thank you for giving me the opportunity to address Congress today as the newly elected General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation taking over from John Monks, the first woman in that position. I would like here to thank ICTU for supporting my candidature. So you will have to adjust from John’s Manchester sounding English to a definitely French-English tone.