Task: Translation
Input (Spanish): Señor Presidente, quisiera señalar antes que otra cosa que, habiendo sido alcalde de Bilbao en la década de los noventa, tuve oportunidad de presentar uno de los primeros proyectos piloto urbanos para ser subvencionados por la Comisión.
Output (English): Mr President, I would firstly like to point out that I was Mayor of Bilbao during the nineties, which gave me the opportunity to present one of the first urban pilot projects to be subsidised by the Commission.