We can only regret that the Committee on Budgets has not taken us up on this.

It would be a good idea to find out if her way of thinking closely matches government policy.

Once again, and I think this is critical, we must reject the Council's behaviour without reservation, in particular the way it behaves towards the European Parliament.

I hope when we come to budget for this, that we do no take the money from the poor or the disadvantaged and give it to another group.

Secondly, I have to say that Europe has still to find and define its place on the international stage.

If the matter is not clear, we should not proceed today as though a new rule had been introduced.

Furthermore, the Community will, unless a satisfactory solution is found, be faced with a competition, or, rather, a competitiveness problem.

Curiously , both in its origins and its disappearance , the peseta has been associated with other European currencies .

Thirdly, the declaration of a 'European Year', with all that that implies for the importance of these questions in terms of commitment to specific programmes.

I must state that none of these questions has elicited a satisfactory response and that many of them have been virtually ignored.

9 Although these assessment challenges are formidable , it is important to acknowledge that significant progress has been made in recent years .

I never thought I could win this award, especially when I saw so many excellent creations at the Occupy Central sites.

I would remind you that the transitional arrangements were much fairer on these points when Greece, Spain and Portugal joined the Community than is the case now with the former GDR.

I always drove motorcycles. And when I bought my first car, it shocked me that it cost three times more than my parents' house. Interesting.

But even a cursory look at recent economic data reveals that Brazil s growth model may well be hitting a stagflationary wall.

In conclusion , the Madrid Seminar illustrated that there are many issues of common interest warranting the pursuit of an active policy dialogue .

We think that if the Parliament votes for it unanimously this could prompt or even force the other institutions to play their role on behalf of the Community at the conference, in such a way as to promote their goals for the sake of peace and for the sake of the peoples of Europe.

I am sorry to see that this is so, and I know that both the Bureau and the Enlarged Bureau share my deep regret at this development.

As we have seen recently, European countries can make sovereign choices regarding energy supply, but this comes at a price.

In this context the Socialist Group favours a procedure that ensures the exemplary rules in this Treaty are retained, because this Treaty has proved its worth in past crises in the coal and steel sectors.

As the report points out, together these changes have created new macro economic conditions for the Member States' economic policies.

Lee established a high minded committee to establish that nepotism was not the reason, and then set about suing anyone who dared to suggest otherwise.

Now that we know all this we have to say that over the past 40 years the GDR has become the dirtiest country in Europe.

As examples like Iran show, even low income countries can achieve dramatic fertility reductions simply by providing choice and education.

BROK waived the normal procedures for dealing with legislative texts.

In the case of mail order sales, we could be letting ourselves in for serious distortions with the proposed threshold of ECU 1 million.

At the same time, we must realize that it is the most important of this Parliament's activities, or at least the activity in which we are able to exercise most influence.

Alarmed that acts of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations aimed at the destruction of human rights have continued despite national and international efforts,

It has to be recognized that all three countries have actually attached more importance to this dimension, to the future possibilityof forming part of the European Community, than to various matters of substance.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if we approve the aforementioned section, we shall be expressing the will of the citizens as to the route they wish to be taken on the way to building a real social Europe.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to a test a drug to see if it's effective and safe without having to put patients at risk, because that first time you're never quite sure?

Here it seems necessary to state that it isn't a disadvantageous situation for rival nor is an obtained benefit in the same game, because evidently the result of the action supposes leaving their own team with less players.

The Convention has so far been implemented by 44 countries, but unfortunately some Member States of the EEC have not yet ratified it.

The main thing I want to say is that the policy towards shipbuilding lacks a regional dimension. I cannot see

At international level, the downward trend is also continuing an average of 828 initiatives per year for the years 1999 2001 compared with 1.122 for the years 1995 1998.

However, once the opportunity had been missed, we had to reconcile ourselves to the fact that we could not take effective action, since we lacked coordinated military resources and did not have the capacity for sufficiently united and speedy decision making.

By providing Japan with a diplomatic carte blanche, the US may find itself hostage to Japanese interests, with the result that Japan becomes part of Asia s security problem, not part of its solution.

I should like to complete the debate so that we can vote on it at the next sitting.

We know that there are difficulties and that we must make changes. But the most important of all is to change the relations we enjoy with the Council and the Commission.

Hungary is a pluralistic democracy and this was demonstrated by something that I was personally able to witness in Budapest when the parliament convened even after 40years of dictatorship it was obvious that there is a parliamentary tradition in Hungary.

cooperation and peacemaking, eliminating all means of mass destruction, through more general disarmament and the elimination of other means of warfare, by creating a climate not only of peace but also democracy and respect of human rights and, at the same time but even more importantly, improving the conditions of workers in Europe, improving the plight of countries which at present are lagging behind in terms of development.

Those of you who have patiently listened to me here today will have understood that the activity of a central bank and particularly that of the ECB encompasses considerably more than monetary policy decisions .

It is positive to see that reforms and moderate increases in labour costs have helped to bring about higher employment and lower unemployment in recent years , although progress has been uneven across EU Member States .

Once the baby has been thrown out with the bath water, i.e. when the companies all go bankrupt and we don't find this out until after the event then the best that can be said of this whole affair is that it represents the failure of the European policy on transport.

VERHAGEN (PPE). (NL) Mr President, It is a matter of great regret that we have to say that the long series of human rights abuses in Sudan has not come to an end, despite, for example, the suspension of development relations under Lomé IV.