PRESIDENT. (GR) Please, ladies and gentlemen.

KÖHLER, Heinz (S). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen.

So, ladies and gentlemen, we shall now proceed to the vote.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is something I should like to bring to your attention.

Schönhuber was here yesterday, because I met him.

Ladies and gentlemen, our group is committed to combating pollution by motor vehicles.

Nothing is yet certain but, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are optimistic.

The committee's letter reached the plenary and the Chair last night at 9 p.m., hence the announcement last night.

Both are my colleagues.

They are both colleagues of mine.

It is addressed to Mr Baron Crespo, President of the European Parliament, and is signed by Mr Galle, chairman of the Committee on the Rules of Procedure, the Verification of Credentials and Immunities.

Gather my beloved near, and our chanting will be dancing.

My colleagues welcomed me very warmly.

There can be no bypassing of my constituency this time.

We cannot advise it in this short period.

If my colleagues are unable to appreciate that, then we shall certainly not provide the answer as far as the budget is concerned by creating 30 more posts to prolong the chaos still further.

This being so, ladies and gentlemen, the question has to be asked whether this means that the use of colorants in plastics is going to stop.

My colleagues said, No, it's a simple solution.

We must firmly adhere to our position on these points.

I note that the Green Group did not request an amendment to the agenda on this point.

Let me turn briefly to the questions put by the general rapporteur.

PIMENTA (LDR). (PT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the situation described by Mr Martin is recorded in the documents.

MARTINEZ (DR). (FR) Madam President, these proposals for monetary union are a further example of how the process we have started is getting out of hand.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the context of the draft resolution that the Committee on Petitions is laying before you today.

Many of my fellow cultural historians disagree.

Some of my fellow journalists might interpret it that way.

I did what most of us do I tried it on some colleagues.

And my male colleagues kind of got it all of a sudden.

I am able to tell you, with regard to Niger, that the situation has improved considerably since June, when calm was restored.

Some of my colleagues were concerned about this.

Is there a blueprint for countryside development ?

BREYER (V). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. My colleague, Mr Bettini, will speak to the Larive report.

The damage inflicted on agriculture in Greece and the other Mediterranean countries, including the President in Officc's own country of Italy, by the drought has been catastrophic, and there are two points that I feel I must persist on.

Now, I think we've found the answer I and a few of my colleagues.

So I was like, Maybe you want to ask some of my colleagues that directly.

DE LA MALÈNE (RDE). (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it didn't take this recent massacre to tell us that religious wars are wars where there is no forgiveness.

And I'm a product of that generation, like so many other of my peers.

My colleagues in infra red astronomy call minus 200 Kelvin is cool for them.

And my colleagues kind of think I'm crazy, but I think it's very viable.

Those memories with my colleagues are important because they are my main support sytem here.

Let me add to what the other Members have said concerning Mount Athos.

Yesterday, with the agreement of all my fellow committee members, I made a number of corrections.

(Applause) who are being held in this scandalous way, in total disregard of the most elementary rules of international law.

And so, at that time, I was able to make some interesting hypotheses along with my colleagues.

I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, Chris, you have a strange career.