PRESIDENT statement made by the President in Office of the European Council, which I believe is sufficiently important in its own right.

I also know that it is difficult at present to give these guarantees.

No farmer is going to waste money on superfluous pesticides.

Does this mean that in anv event, agriculture will have to foot the bill?

If we do not have pesticides, production will go down and the cost of food is going to soar.

BOWE (S). I am pleased to hear what the presidency has said, but I would like a little clarification. Quite clearly it is important that we should know fruit and vegetables are sold, what they have been treated with at all stages.

Most of these gains would be in Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia, the world s most deprived regions.

As the Sixth Periodic Report shows, considerably less success has been recorded in terms of reducing the level of unemployment in the disadvantaged regions.

MARTIN S. (LDR). (FR) Noone today can dispute the effect that the GATT agreements will have on the CAP and thus on the incomes and the future of European farmers, who are currently going through an unprecedented crisis.

As well as being multifunctional, unique and disadvantaged, mountain areas also display features that may give them a competitive edge or qualify them in many areas as a model for other regions.

This would, for example, render the distinction between compulsory and non compulsory expenditure completely obsolete, even though we may have regarded it as such since 1988, and would mean that the presence of representatives of the Council at Parliament's budget debates and voting would have to be reciprocated by the attendance of a parliamentary delegation at Council discussions and voting on the budget.

We need worldwide disarmament and a more equitable world economic order.

I wonder when the Commission will realise that the social progress we arc calling for is not only for workers but for the Community and disadvantaged regions as a whole.

for the protection of enterprises handicapped by structural or natural conditions

As is mentioned in the Commission's proposal, the socioeconomic state of certain people has significantly worsened vis à vis the average population. These are

At the end of the day, effective conservation of Europe's cultural, archaeological and architectural riches will assist economic development and help to promote economic and social cohesion, particularly in the lessfavoured regions.

However, to believe that it is would be to ignore the drop in the real incomes of farmers in the Community, who deserve an extra effort both on farm prices for the next marketing year and on specific aid for less favoured regions.

As was clearly demonstrated in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, the advent of new technologies along with the adoption of community approaches to long life learning offer exciting and important new opportunities for improving the knowledge base in these disadvantaged regions.

This was to be expected in a country where no one needs children from disadvantaged families.

On the delicate issue of institutional balance, about which President Delors has spoken, I must say first of all how much I welcome the overtures he has made to Parliament.

NAPOLETANO (GUE). (IT) Mr President, the great event of German unification, but before that even the upheavals in the East and, today, the invasion of Kuwait and the consequent crisis in the Gulf tell us that the process of achieving political unity for Europe must undoubtedly be accelerated if we want a democratic Europe with any real influence in these events.

Regions by Capital

Regions by Flag

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And they are regionally separated.

Past debate on this has been

It is in solving these old and new historical problems that we see the prospect of a fruitful future of progress and peace. Undoubtedly today's debate amounts to a significant contribution, a step towards that future.

For five years (until 1993), the Community will be able to devote some ECU 60 thousand million to promoting structural development, an effort which will be directed in particular at the least developed or least favoured regions and will thus benefit rural development.

In a sense this directive runs parallel with the second banking directive on the basis of a uniform licence the investment undertaking will be able to operate throughout all the Community countries provided it respects a number of rules. Since this

These aids may be differentiated by region.

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The same thing is also happening elsewhere.

telecommunications.

I support the Commission in their proposals to help some of the most disadvantaged people in the European Community.

As well as regions of the Union, this could cover comparable regions in non member countries.

That directive is vital to guarantee genuinely equal treatment throughout the Community of investors who trade on the stock markets and here the citizen needs special protection in order to sustain and encourage public interest in that type of investment, which acts as a particularly good means of financing undertakings.

Nor does it pit Europe against other regions.

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And we found activity in a lot of brain regions.