But we have no evidence so far that the Commission has been as assiduous in proposing measures to bring troubled sectors under control fast as

It is one of our joint ambitions which we have cherished for quite a time, since we worked out together a set of rules called 'Television without frontiers', when we noted that it was not just a question of making rules, no matter how important, or how consistent with the requirements of the single market, that would give Europe's audiovisual sector a period of hope and achievement greater than last year.

The Atlantic Ocean is not yet faced by problems on the same scale, yet we know so little about the processes going on there that perhaps before very long we shall be presented with research findings that show that there too we are sawing away at the branch on which our very existence depends.

Airtel has pushed for a policy level change to legitimize exceptional data charges and many other over the top services.

Racism, as I said yesterday, is scientifically nonsensical, morally repugnant but, most importantly, politically dangerous.

As one young Romanian medical student I met told me 'you can't give us back a clear conscience.'

It is my view that the Americans have put far too much emphasis on agriculture and we, as a Community have probably put far too little.

In a statement issued from his cell he said that the DPP's candidates would have fared better if they had insisted that Taiwan is a separate country.

In fact I would go so far as to say precisely because this amendment does not initially find favour with the Commission or the Council.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted that the EaEU is not intended to function as a resurrected Soviet Union, but that any former Soviet republic is free to join.

As my colleague Jeffrey Frankel has remarked, for more than 20 years, Germany s elites have insisted that the eurozone will not be a transfer union.

For how long have France s moral and political authorities been telling us that stigmatization of the National Front doesn t work, that it strengthens the party instead of weakening it?

We all agree on the necessity to protect workers, but this clause, as formulated is so vague as to allow of any interpretation.

However, the compromise urges the Commission to deal with these two parliamentary concerns in a further document as quickly as possible.

Under Xi, the CCP has repeatedly insisted that the rule of law is a core socialist value and has pledged to promote the authority of the constitution.

Throughout his five year tenure, Shirakawa has maintained a hawkish policy stance, insisting that monetary easing would have no possible benefit for Japan s long stagnant economy.

Looking back, Stern said, his report could have been more insistent about the need to take determined action to avoid the catastrophic risks that this level of warming implies.

Given the widely divergent standpoint within GATT, this is perhaps understandable, especially as some of these reductions have been operated since 1986. We also realize that a percentage reduction in aid does not mean that the farmers' incomes fall by that same percentage.

HERMANS (PPE). (NL) Mr President, speakers here in Parliament and in the ACP EEC Parliamentary Assembly too have repeatedly insisted on solutions for the irresponsible and unjustifiable destruction of rain forest.

New opportunities have arisen for the Community and for the whole of the continent of Europe.

Traditionally, the IMF has insisted on two criteria a currency s issuing country must be among the world s leading exporters, and the currency must be freely usable widely used and traded.

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you neither have I desired the woeful day you know that which came out of my lips was before your face.

As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee neither have I desired the woeful day thou knowest that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

I think that exclusions or supplementations of the Commission's proposal ought perhaps to relate to the stricter control of utilization, and not to the content of the substance per cubic centimetre, which content has no doubt been laid down by the Commission after assiduous and careful research.

Moreover, Israel has practically abandoned any hope of receiving agreed gas supplies from Egypt, and has not pressed its demand that Egypt block the passage of sophisticated weapons to Gaza.

One of the key messages all participants insisted on was the essential role of domestic reforms and institutions for countries to be in a position to fully reap the benefits of trade .

At the same time , the ECB emphasised that this should in no way lessen the importance of the regular testimonies , where the principal questions regarding the ECB 's policy decisions should continue to be discussed .

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been unequivocal in its insistence that reducing CO 2 emissions and diminishing dependence on fossil fuels is more urgent than ever.

But it makes a big difference whether such activities are conducted by Russia or China, or by an ally that repeatedly emphasizes the importance of close transatlantic friendship and cooperation.

Since then, Chinese officials have insisted that they do not belong in US Russian strategic arms talks, because the two countries nuclear arsenals dwarf theirs.

For this reason, the developed world has long wanted to replace the firewall between the two historic groupings with a form of differentiation that better reflects the contemporary world. But the developing countries including major powers like China have insisted that it remain.

Finally, the objective of Amendments Nos 2 and 9 is to abolish the transitional period for the application of the provisions allowing intermediation by brokers.

I therefore ask all my colleagues here for a favourable vote for all the amendments put forward by the Committee on Women's Rights, not forgetting the amendment put forward here by Mrs Rønn after it had been rejected in committee.

Although Clinton and Obama have been insistent that North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will be renegotiated around labor and environmental concerns 45 45 even threatening to opt out of that trade deal opting out is highly unlikely.

The creation of the internal market and the policy of Community solidarity cry out for greater participation by its citizens and greater realism on the part of the Community institutions in short, for a redistribution of Community power at an essentially political moment.

Sadly, not only has Europe not responded to this gesture by starting to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia, but the French government has reinforced the moves towards war by sending out 4 000 men and additional heavy equipment.

I consider it dangerous, Mrs Salisch, for you to want to turn this into a crisis that takes in the whole of Parliament, and on my group's behalf I want to say that we do not agree to voting against the Commission.

Moreover, abandoning the Kyoto Protocol s exemption of developing countries from obligations for current emissions, the US has insisted on obligations from China and India that reflect a common form of taxation of emissions.

The workers concerned in Belgium will, however, wonder in the first place what does this social Europe offer us, what advantages will it afford us ?

At his hearing before the European Parliament, and especially in recent statements made in Paris, Commissioner Michel Barnier, who is responsible for the single market, has stressed the need to reconcile the needs of private individuals with the market at large, which should exist to benefit the social project.

It is very easy to draw up a long report laying down a whole series of demands which in our heart of hearts we know cannot be put into effect. I deeply deplore the slapdash way in which a matter of such importance as the social dimension was dealt with in the Committee on Social Affairs two days for the voting, and now well over 100 amendments.

With regard to the problems encountered in transit through Yugoslavia by road transport operators from the Community, and Greece in particular, the Commission has repeatedly urged the Yugoslav Government to find a solution quickly, and the Member of the Commission in charge of transport has personally been in touch with the highest authorities in Yugoslavia.

At global level, the EU has pushed for more ambition in the Resolutions on Oceans and the Law of the Sea and on Sustainable Fisheries, promoting global membership of maritime governance instruments such as UNCLOS.

He has long insisted on the creation of a no fly buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border, under the pretext that it would help to address the humanitarian crisis that the civil war has engendered. But his real objective is to forestall any Kurdish bid for autonomy in northern Syria.

What makes such a deal seem impossible is not the principled opposition of the two governments Greece has demanded a debt reduction, while Germany has insisted that not a euro of debt can be written off but something more fundamental while Greece is obviously the weaker party in this conflict, it has far more at stake.