My group will be voting in favour of it.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines.

Such muddle achieves nothing but unnecessary conflict between the institutions.

The immense scale of the problem must not stop us showing solidarity with the peoples of the Soviet Union.

PRESIDENT. The joint debate is closed.

There are two key questions facing British farmers. The first, which I believe will be answered shortly, is when

PIQUET (CG). (FR) My group will vote in favour of the text before us.

My group will therefore not be voting for it but will support the Commission's proposal.

That means that although views may still differ radically, the CSCE process still has to be seen as a very definite contribution to the construction of a new Europe.

They represent a very brief synthesis of our discussions.

Further more, I fail to see how a Minister of Justice can find a play on words admittedly one which is vitriolic, because of the mockery it attempts to throw over a sinister period of history more reprehensible than the statements of senior statesmen, who adopt the attitudes of the theories which they claim to fight against.

Mr President, I want to bring to the attention of you and the Bureau that it is a mockery of parliamentary procedure that you allot so little time to an entire group, in a really serious debate about the future of European shipping a matter which is highly technical, and very complicated, involving over 100 amendements.

BLOT (DR). (FR) I should like to say that our group will be voting against this report because it runs altogether counter to the tide of history.

The Socialist Group will of course vote for the report and common position because the four essential conditions we had set have been met.

The law on growth and activity that will be voted on this year will unleash the business sector s energy, including by stimulating competition.

How are we supposed to understand anything anymore ?

I believe that a pro rata system would totally upset the balance of the system to the benefit of the Commission and the detriment of all the other institutions. We consider this amendment to be extremely important and would like to hear the Commission's view on it.

(Parliament adopted the legislative resolution)

The draft legislation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 will be put to the vote on Monday, first in the House of Representatives, secondly in the Senate.

When the Research Committee and its rapporteur ask that participation in projects funded by the Community should be restricted to industries which hold at least 51 of their capital in the EEC, they are expressing a deep disquiet.

MENDES BOTA (LDR). (PT) Madam President, this report resorts to an aggressiveness which it is unusual to find in texts emanating from this Parliament, particularly when addressed to an institutional partner in the Community.

VECCHI (GUE). (IT) The Group for the European Unitarian Left will be voting for the joint resolution tabled and supported jointly by the groups of the left.

By behaving as it has, Iraq has violated the principles which form part of the whole of civilized society.

And I think it also needs saying that not enough emphasis has been laid on the fact that this represents a great victory for Europe, for democracy and for our values, because this unification is taking place in accordance with the principles of our Community and is integrating the whole of Germany into NATO.

Nevertheless at least one of them, the senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska, has said that he will vote against, and only a republican has expressed his support to the law, Richard Lugar from Indiana.

Just tomorrow, the Congress of Deputies will vote a PSOE's initiative by which the party proposes to install the system in school buses, as has already been done in France.

If I might explain firstly, this House will vote on a revision of the financial perspective in this connection only when the institutions have reached a consensus, and not before.

This demonstrates a massive indifference to people whose money is taken from them by force, since taxation is a matter in which there is no freedom of financial choice, the decisions being taken from on high by government.

Many of the more impartial polling firms, such as Luis Christiansen s Consultores 21, Varianzas, and Keller, all show a surprisingly large proportion of undecided voters those who do not answer or do not know for whom they will vote.

COLAJANNI (GUE). (IT) Ladies and gentlemen, our Group for the European Unitarian Left will be voting in favour of this text because we consider that it at any rate constitutes a political step forward in the dramatic affair confronting us.

ROTH (V). (DE) Mr President, racism is not a petty offence, the expression of racial opinions can in no way be regarded as part of the right to freedom of opinion, they injure their victims to the highest degree.

The talk in Paris now is scarecely about human rights or freedom of movement for individuals, but rather about disarma ment and massive aid to Eastern Europe.

So once again I would like to reassure the rapporteur that barring any unforeseen changes, and I see no reason for there to be any, my group will support her report and where possible will also vote for my amendments.

Firstly, ICL will continue to be run by a European management team who will be responsable for research and development and production and marketing activities.

He will, however, be voting for what does not appear in the resolution but for what Andreotti has apparently said but is not included in the actual motion for a resolution.

If Greece tries such unilateral defiance, the ECB will almost certainly vote to stop its emergency funding to the Greek banking system after the troika program expires on February 28.

I wish to explain the reasons why the Liberal, Democratic and Reformist Group will be voting for this compromise motion although we are not satisfied with two provisions in it, or rather one that is there and one that is at risk of being deleted.

If we manage to confirm the success of this integration process, which concerns a large section of humanity, this example will certainly be a beneficial one and have positive effects on many other situations that may arise and, probably, on the evolution of the international community as a whole.

Parliament is no longer able to perform its supervisory role properly because the budget procedure is cut up into sections using the technique which our leftist friends in Eastern Europe used in the Fifties and which is known as 'salami tactics'.

MEDINA ORTEGA (S). (ES) Mr President, in contrast to the speaker who preceded me, I am going to refer to the subject actually on the agenda for this afternoon, in other words Mrs Salema's report on behalf of the Committee on the Rules of Procedure, the Verification of Credentials and Immunities, on the introduction into the Rules of Procedure of a procedure relating to the examination of the annual report on the application of Community law in the Community.

PROUT (ED). Mr President, my group will vote for this text on the clear understanding, reached without dissent today in the enlarged Bureau, that these observers, whom we warmly welcome, will not in any circumstances be given the right to speak in this Chamber.

The existing problems with the present arrangements which underlie the proposals for changes in the Rules of Procedure and which have been recognized by the Committee on the Rules of Procedure are essentially two, different but of equal importance.

In our view it would therefore be advisable to take a gradual approach which will make it possible, after a specified period, to modify the directive, reviewing, in the light of experience, its main aspects and, in particular, the fields of application and the Community intervention machinery.

For this reason, against the background of solidarity which is giving Europe a stronger role in this new world order, the question of reunification cannot be confined solely to the boundaries of the future German state it is truly of concern to Europe as a whole.