Europe s political elite have, for the most part, been strongly integrationist.

Government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm rejected the criticism resolutely.

The Finnish initiative should be given strong support from all European leaders.

Mr Schmidhuber was informing us a moment ago of the discussion that will take place tomorrow in the Commission.

There can be no mistaking the decidedly subpar character of the current global recovery.

So as a teacher and as a spouse, this is, of course, a problem I confront every day.

The outlook for developing countries, in particular, is decidedly mixed.

Brazil and India are democracies, while China and Russia are decidedly not.

The Eurosystem strongly supports the creation of a Single Euro Payment Area ( SEPA ) . In this

We must therefore stake everything on supporting the embargo.

That answer is decidedly counterintuitive and hence easy to reject.

And, despite the spike in unemployment, productivity growth in the eurozone is decidedly negative.

There is a need for a close link between economic and social policies, not only national level, but also at Community level.

There is something deeply unappealing about yoking countries together when being unyoked is more advantageous.

(b) To ensure for journalists the free and effective performance of their professional tasks and condemn resolutely all attacks against them

(b) To ensure for journalists the free and effective performance of their professional tasks and condemn resolutely all attacks against them

In particular, what has made Russia so keen to undermine the current international order, first in Georgia in 2008 and in Ukraine now?

On the contrary , DG Competition was particularly supportive of the idea of a monitoring framework for card fees .

During President George W. Bush's administration, the US was willfully destructive of its global interests when it disregarded international law on issues like torture.

Most Israelis would strongly object to this interpretation. Their regional environment has become much more unstable and unpredictable.

Work Characterized by modernism, Loca is followed by other poems that have a rather romantic tang Raída poty , Guarán i , La sortija , Diana de gloria .

If you will still live in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.

If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

The Governing Council strongly supports a reform agenda which focuses on raising employment growth , fostering investment and stimulating innovation and productivity .

In addition , the EMI has strongly supported a Commission initiative to harmonise the frequency , timeliness and coverage of a wide range of conjunctural statistics to the extent deemed necessary .

This broad consensus also makes it clear to the outside world, after all, that we Members of the European Parliament are unanimous and determined in our desire to contribute to a political solution which is acceptable to the international community.

The Eurosystem appreciates the efforts made and the objectives met by the European banking industry and its self regulatory body , the European Payments Council ( EPC ) , and continues to strongly support the SEPA project .

MONNIER BESOMBES (V). (FR) Mr President, I come from a town, Marseilles, in which for a long time the only vehicle of xenophobic propaganda was the work of a large daily newspaper which was bailed out by one of the Socialist Party's symbolic figures, namely, the late Mr Gaston Déferre.

The gap is simply too large between what is needed to restore competitiveness and what citizens can stomach if they remain part of the monetary union.

I hope the Commission and the Council of Ministers will take more interest in the developing countries than Parliament has shown in this report. Parliament's trade policy shows it to be a willing tool of powerful capitalist and organizational interests.

But while trust takes years to establish, it can be squandered abruptly if a particular bank s ethics are weak, its values poor, and its behavior simply wrong.

Similarly, for many years market participants have been richly rewarded for falling in love quickly and decisively with the new policy measures adopted by America s Federal Reserve.

It is essential that the commitments that the EEC countries have entered into in the framework of the Lomé Convention and its preferental accords be respected. We must not have a situation in which no sooner is the ink dry on the Lomé Convention than we put a line straight through it.

None of the GATT partners should try to enforce its own agricultural system on the others or try to do this by means of free trade.

6. Urges all States of the other regions, particularly weapons producing States, to cooperate decisively in combating the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons throughout the region of South America

Indeed, Albert del Rosario, the foreign minister of the Philippines, which was under Japanese occupation during WWII, now strongly supports a re armed Japan as a counterweight to China.

10. Urges States to take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence

In this respect , the Governing Council strongly backs reforms focusing on reducing labour market rigidities , product market barriers and administrative burdens , and on stimulating technological innovation .

Member States with remaining imbalances should thus commit themselves to a clear consolidation strategy to attain the objectives agreed under the Stability and Growth Pact within the shortest possible time frame .

2. Recognizes the uneven progress made so far in achieving the objectives agreed upon in the Millennium Declaration, and urges Member States to continue to undertake with determination appropriate measures towards its implementation

As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have shown in their book This Time is Different, over the long sweep of history, post crisis recoveries in output and employment tend to be decidedly subpar.

Recommendation to set up a European debit card scheme The Eurosystem strongly recommends setting up at least one additional European debit card scheme , which could be used mainly in the euro area countries .

As was noted in point 6.1, some Latin American countries would be prepared to conclude bilateral agreements with the USA, thus abandoning their own regional commitments and undermining the Latin American integrationist efforts supported by the EU.

The ECB therefore strongly supports the request made by the Commission of the European Communities that Member States should provide sufficiently comparable data covering at least each of the preceding twelve months .

My vote in favour is accompanied by these revealing comments made by Pierre Gerbet in his book 'The Building of Europe'