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But there is no doubt that this new phase is also the phase of democratic legitimacy of the Community.

I will therefore vote against the Colombo report.

I know you will lose no sleep over this.

We therefore opt for the flexibility of a confederation, so that the defence of the vital geopolitical and economic interests of the states of Europe can be pooled, with no loss of their sovereignty or of their inhabitants' freedoms.

He rebuilt Colombo and showed us physical development I never dreamed of.

I do not know whether this was because I am the bravest among us, but I was certainly the only one.

IACONO (S). (IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the report introduced by Mr McMillan Scott appears exhaustive and gives the measure of the importance that is to be attributed to tourism in the building of the new Europe, the People's Europe.

It is a question of being equal to the new times in which we live.

The fact of the matter is that no previous European Year has had the breadth and impact of European Year of Tourism.

I am broadly in agreement as indeed I said in my statement but they must understand that it is not of course possible to reply to these promptings in a statement lasting a few brief seconds.

Then we have Renukanth Subramaniam, aka JiLsi founder of DarkMarket, born in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

This was in an area called Wellawatta, a prime residential area in Colombo.

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DE GIOVANNI government, this super government being the present Commission.

In conclusion, Mr President, it is not enough to create a federal super state, its back turned against the rest of the world.

If I might be permitted to make a private, personal observation in connection with European Tourism Year, I would highlight the positive experience of seeing Silkeborg, the area I come from in Denmark, numbered as one of the three areas in Denmark to be awarded a prize, a sum of money.

Supporters of Sri Lanka's main opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena burst firecrackers at the end of voting in the presidential election in Colombo.

I think, therefore, that this chord gives the debate that is in progress on the draft Constitution of the European Union very much greater force and greater relevancy.

Finally, a pillar of our future federal union must be recognition of the right of every citizen of the union to initiate legislation and to be consulted, where appropriate, by way of referendum.

Would he acknowledge that on several occasions I raised with him, and by letter of 26 April 1990 with Mr Delors, my concerns about the management, financial and other wise, of the Year ?

I'm glad to see that you are all for the bazaar coming from a bunch of hagglers that doesn't surprise me.

Sailing via Hong Kong, Singapore, and Colombo, Ceylon, she transited the Suez Canal for a brief tour of the Mediterranean.

Sri Lankan polling officers carry ballot boxes into a counting center after the close of polling for the presidential election in Colombo.

There is something that I wish to say to the Commission, since I have often criticized it, sometimes, it is true, in severe terms.

The history of states lies fundamentally in their internal policy a history of dominant races and exploited minorities.

Herein resides the origin of a constitutional development that allots government and people a special place, each with its own rights and duties.

I also had the experience of seeing the Commission's hot air balloon come to Silkeborg in this connection, and I was the first Member of the European Parliament to go up in one of these balloons.

The talk is increasingly of political union, but the European Council holds all the powers appertaining to political union, which is quite the opposite of what Mr Colombo's report seeks perfectly reasonably and realistically to achieve, which is a balance between the various institutions.

Sri Lanka's main opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena reads a newspaper during a campaign rally for the upcoming presidential elections in Colombo.

That is where we part company, Mr Colombo, that is where I know my group parts company with the great majority in this House.

If the founding fathers to whom he referred chose this concept of a community, they doubtless had a reason for doing so.

We can advertise for the whole of Europe in a third country, although the question is how feasible this would be financially.

Sri Lankan election commission workers carry ballot boxes while escorted by police on the eve of presidential elections in Colombo.

into marketing and promotional contracts with the consultancy appointed by the Commission, Euroconseil, have incurred serious losses.

JOANNY (V). (FR) In our deliberations on the Colombo report, ladies and gentlemen, we are not concerned with working out negotiating tactics for the advancement of the Community but with laying the constitutional foundations of European union.

Second interim report (Doc. A3 301 90) by Mr Colombo, on behalf of the Committee on Institutional Affairs on the constitutional basis of European Union

Mr Desama is lucky that his name is not Colombo, because otherwise his machine would translate his name, in English, as 'pigeon'.

MELIS (ARC). (IT) Mr President, Mr Colombo's draft constitution reflects appreciable and appreciated commitment in an attempt to give consistency and political vitality to the draft European Union.

MENDES BOTA (LDR). (PT) Madam President, this report resorts to an aggressiveness which it is unusual to find in texts emanating from this Parliament, particularly when addressed to an institutional partner in the Community.

Flights were started to Athens, Bangkok, Dhaka, Mogadishu, Nairobi, New York City, Madrid, Singapore, Manila, Delhi, Islamabad, Seoul, Baghdad, Amsterdam, Colombo, Nice, Lahore, Brussels, Dakar, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei.

A first year law student could have told you that, Mr Colombo.

Consequently, as the Colombo report strongly states the need to proceed along the road of constitutional amendments, we shall be more than glad to endorse this report.

IN THE CHAIR MRS PERY with a high level of agreement amongst the Community's institutions.