Helping the little lady along, are you, my fine gentlemen?

Good gentlemen!

Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends.

Gentlemen, question mark. Errr!

Gentlemen, question mark.

There is thus an absence of solidarity in practice, often to an alarming degree.

The chairman of the committee has already pointed out that the Commission proposal and the Commission deserves credit for this dates back to 1989 and that Parliament expressed an opinion on it in 1990.

Mr President, Mr President of the Commission, Mr President in Office, the Intergovernmental Conference is not going well.

Honored members of the Sarah Siddons Society, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen.

However, I quite agree that it needs sup plementing, e.g. by including supplementary criteria depending on the specific questions to be studied.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say a few words on accidents at sea.

Mr President, Mr Duisenberg, ladies and gentlemen, this debate is taking place at a difficult moment as regards economic policy.

PAPANDREOU, Member of the Commission. (GR) Madam President, I would like to clarify something.

But you, my dear Christian Democrat friends, continue to talk to us about realism.

HARRISON (S). Mr President, could you ask Mr Bettini to speak a little more slowly ?

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, do not try to argue that what is wrong is right.

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, we are monitoring this reform with justifiably high expectations.

Mr President, esteemed gentlemen from Portugal, especially the Council representatives, you face great expectations on our part.

To finish, Mr President, I want to emphasize that in our view there needs to be a totally different approach to the substantial problems connected with employ

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, noise is disturbing an increasing number of people in Europe.

Madam President, Commissioners, honourable Members, I had prepared a speech, but everything has been said.

Madam President, Commissioners, Mr President, honourable Members, Cancún was a failure just like Seattle.

Gentlemen of the board... one can rob a bank, or one can...

Mr President, Mr President of the Commission, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, I turn to you, Mr President, in your capacity as chairman of the Conference of Presidents.

Parliament must therefore reserve the right to have the Court decide whether the Commission is actually entitled to stand by this position.

That is why paragraph 4 of the compromise resolution in fact follows the Council com muniqué.

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to start by congratulating the rapporteurs, Mr Sacrédeus, Mrs Rühle and specifically Mrs Kratsa Tsagaropoulou, on whose report I wish to speak.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, despite the technical problems, I would like to speak.

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, we are neither in a North African bazaar nor in a European marketplace.

Mr President, I too would like to thank the rapporteur for this excellent report.

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to ask you, and also the Commission, for your help.

Ladies and gentlemen, as you are well aware, we are not going to start a debate on this sensitive issue.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, fellow members, this report deals with a very complex issue.

Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to thank the rapporteurs sincerely for their work.

Mr President, honourable Members, fellow members of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, I too should like to thank you all for your speeches and for the tone of this debate.

Moreover, there were still differences of opinion on including carbon tetrachloride and chloroform in the directive.

After all, when the mother of a large family reaches retirement age, and when her children are paying for other people's pensions, is it fair that she should receive nothing?

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I too should like to join the House in thanking the rapporteur.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we are on the verge of a really historic round of accessions.

We therefore welcome the European Council's decision to send a mission headed by the British Foreign Minister to South Africa.

With crisis prevailing on certain markets, as feel the need to increase planned expenditure substantially.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Greens agree with these three reports in principle.

Mr President, Madam Vice President, ladies and gentlemen, first I should like to thank the rapporteur.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to begin, of course, by congratulating the rapporteur Mr Caudron.