To this end , an Intergovernmental Conference on EMU was convened , which was held in 1991 in parallel with the Intergovernmental Conference on political union .

One can be an antiracist without voting for Mr Ford's report.

I came here to give jobs to working people and it is to them that I shall show loyalty.

Will the Inter governmental Conference be capable of ensuring rhat it goes ahead ?

The Council shall act within a period of two months in order to remedy the situation.'

They had been hoping for a consensus, which only tolerance and reason would have achieved.

It must be strength ened before it is expanded.

approved beforehand by Parliament.

Later the WEU is to be integrated into the EC.

By the very nature of things, the Commission's power of initiative would thus never be expropriated or challenged by Parliament, and this should perhaps permit a more benign attitude towards granting such a power of initiative to parliamentarians.

Declarations annexed to the Final Act of the Intergovernmental Conference which adopted the Treaty of Lisbon

Your speaker usually adopts a critical position, but would today like to be allowed to depart from this habit to commend the report by Mr Fernand Herman.

Does the Commission believe that this question should be considered at the forthcoming Intergovernmental Conference on political union ?

I shall not ask the Council to comment as you are simply registering a protest.

As my committee will not be meeting until 3 and 4 December because of the Interparliamentary Conference, 1 request that, where the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy is concerned, the deadline be set at 4 December.

VEIL conference, would at last open the way to significant progress.

If we had possessed such resources in 1940, the lives of many members of the resistance, who were heroes, but sometimes fell victim to an amateur approach, could probably have been saved.

We see no reason why the representatives of Parliament should not take part in the inter governmental conference.

5 July 2007 The European Central Bank adopts an opinion on the opening of an Intergovernmental Conference

Even Economic and Monetary Union, which 1 also believe is of indisputable import ance, will be borne mainly by women because the very busy counter services in banks will be manned mainly by women.

Of course, if that is decided, we shall help.

PRESIDENT. I would remind you that at the last partsession Parliament rejected this proposal and the Committee on Social Affairs, Employment and the Working Environment has just confirmed this position.

We do not agree with all the recommendations, but we hope this report will enable the Commission and the governments to make a start on the fight against racism and xenophobia at long last.

These reports clearly aim at altering the Treaties of Rome as in a federal state the member nations are completely integrated.

The confederation would have specific responsibilities in relation to foreign policy, security, and protection of national identities, including in particular a policy aimed at preventing the formation of foreign colonies on European nation's soil, this policy being essential to the maintenance of peace between peoples.

ECB Opinion on the opening of an Intergovernmental Conference to draw up a Treaty amending the existing Treaties

3. Welcomes the work carried out by the intergovernmental follow up mechanism to the Fourth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies

Mr De Michelis said this morning that it was an intergovernmental conference and therefore Parliament was excluded.

Furthermore, the structures of European defence have not been defined and there are those who consider and wish that they should remain in the hands of NATO and even admit certain Eastern European countries.

I believe that the longterm impact on our economy will be increased employment opportunities in those industries which fully grasp the opportunities available to market their products in a stable currency zone containing 350 million consumers.

Tomorrow, the Italian Presidency is to confirm explicitly what we already know, and what has already received the agreement of the Luxembourg and Dutch people, whose views on the subject have been asked for.

This certainly does not mean that we shall not promote and continue our policies to aim at the fairest possible level of participation by women in all our proposals, whether

I believe that our industrialists will welcome moves to reduce further and even eliminate the small currency fluctuations which now exist in the ERM.

6. Requests the Secretary General of the Conference, in close cooperation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Bank, to organize all the sessions of the intergovernmental preparatory committee

States and the Commission and the Council legally implemented these measures within a very few days, cutting corners as never before.

I personally have no desire to lose my Frenchman's soul, nor have I any desire, as a Frenchman, to lose my Corsican's soul.

I should also like to say that the fight against racism is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to politicians as mediocre as Mr Ford. That is the essence of the question.

Ireland, Greece Spain and Portugal may be the weaker Member States, but they have not been weak in terms of their commitment to Europe.

It is indeed sad, Mr President of the Council, to have to accept the evidence that the European Community only progresses along its natural road because it is obliged to do so by external pressures and therefore, in the final analysis, only does so out of fear or egoism.

The Spanish Government has drafted a proposal on the subject which is under consideration and is intended as a contribution to the Intergovernmental Conference on Political Union.

This is a serious question from many aspects and may therefore also be considered by the Intergovernmental Conference with a view to amending the Treaties.

I have therefore tabled an amendment to the report adding a new paragraph 2a worded as follows The interpretation of paragraph 2 shall be put to the vote in accordance with Rule 132 of the European Parliament's Rules of Procedure.

Indeed I think that we must give our attention in the near future and I am thinking here of the Intergovernmental Conference on European political union to two extensions to the representation question.

JOANNY (V). (FR) Mr President, I shall confine myself to what has been said about the subsidiarity report.

The European Council welcomed the draft Constitution as a good basis for starting the conference of representatives of the governments of the Member States ( Intergovernmental Conference or IGC ) that the Italian Presidency has convened for 4 October 2003 .