That is not a level playing field, Madam President.

I am therefore going to abstain but I also want to say, Madam President, that if we are led in the way we have been led by this President, we have come to a sorry pass and we shall pay dear. You who protest against...

Under these circumstances I do not think it desirable that this report should be published in its present form.

Madam President, this would give us extra room for manoeuvre in the negotiations, and our partners, such as the United States, could not object.

BRITTAN, Sir Leon. The position on the various amendments is as my colleague, Mr Bangemann, indicated.

BOMBARD (S). (FR) Madam President, you are proposing that we vote on the budget at 9 a.m.

What is Parliament hiding Madam Speaker? Rwakakamba ( Rwakakamba) March 11, 2015

BETTINI (V). (IT) Madam President, in the course of one of this year's parliamentary sittings, my group submitted a request for urgent debate on the transfer of military and technological know how to third countries, with particular reference to Iraq.

McMILLAN SCOTT (ED). Madam President, on a point of order.

If we regard these states as external partners, there is no call to in

Precise measures are outlined quite clearly in the report that has been presented by the rapporteur.

EWING (ARC). Madam President, on a point of order.

VON DER VRING (S), Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. (DE) Madam President, I just wanted to point out that the second reading of this draft budget should be taken separately from the second reading of the tectifying letter.

FONTAINE (PPE). (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the present debate is a sensitive one, but I believe that, despite the difficulties and intolerable wrangles we experienced this morning, which are unworthy of a Parliament, this House simply had to take a second look at these issues. Why ?

GOLLNISCH (DR). (FR) Mr President, just a few comments.

BEAZLEY, Peter (ED). Madam President, on a point of order.

That is what we should do, Madam President, so that we do not come to regret our lack of foresight.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, one further remark with regard to the structural funds.

We sold 327 Mirages to Iraq up to 1987, Madam President.

PANNELLA (NI). (FR) I just wanted to say, Madam President, that I am in favour.

The Flemish movement has always been basically an emancipation movement.

Some of these crops are carted half way across the world without any thought for the cost or the environment.

COLOM I NAVAL (S). (ES) Madam President, a very brief explanation of vote.

SMITH, Llewellyn (S). Madam President, I will be supporting the report for three reasons.

For that reason, I shall be voting against, Madam President.

MELANDRI (V). (IT) Madam President, I have two further short observations to make.

What is the point in all these hopes expressed by members from Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean countries as a whole if they are not carried through into action ?

SABY (S). (FR) Madam President, the conditions inflicted on the Tuaregs are quite intolerable.

PRESIDENT. I have received seven motions for resolutions with a request for an early vote, pursuant to Rule 56(3) and Rule 58(6), to wind up the debate on the Commission statement and the oral question.

PANNELLA (NI). (FR) Madam President, I think the chair is in a no win situation here, because the problem is not just what Mr Prag has just described the problem is that the chair of a parliament cannot put to a majority vote rules which are to be changed in accordance with the rules we make to change those rules.

KELLETT BOWMAN (ED). Madam President, in some of the languages an agenda has not been distributed.

As I say, this sector is an important one.

He has made very grave accusations against our group, which was excluded illegally from this committee of inquiry, and he does not even bother to listen, contrary to the principles...

But it seems to us that it is rather feeble to say, in paragraph 3, that it is necessary to find policies for effective prevention when, above all, the same resolution attempts only to make suggestions about ex post facto control, about training of fire fighters, about ways of taking action and about organization.

(S). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to comment on three points.

LALOR (RDE). Madam President, my problem is somewhat similar to Mr Kellett Bowman's.

They also, at high tempetatures, give rise to dioxins and furanes which have the same properties but in a more acute form.

PIERRÔS (PPE). (GR) Madam President, I would simply like to express agreement with those who have spoken already and to say three things concerning Mount Athos.

I have already pointed out that we consider the report's methodology and analysis deficient and we have serious reservations about a number, but not by any means all, the conclusions.

ELLIOTT (S). Madam President, I too have not got an agenda in English.

Then, just a word about the three amendments tabled by Mr Topmann.

For all these reasons, Madam President, our group will be voting against the final proposal.

PERREAU DE PINNINCK DOMENECH (RDE). (ES) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I want to comment briefly on the situation in Cuba with regard to human rights.

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COT thus be best to group all the votes together at the end of the morning as the present Rules permit.