I should like to comment on all four.

A number of countries have already started addressing these issues .

There is therefore every good reason to return to these issues.

I will expand on these three points today.

These are issues I will now be taking up with the federal authorities in Germany.

For this purpose there is a need for instruments that can help enterprises to address these questions.

The meeting will consider what is the best way to deal with these various topics.

equal opportunities with a focus on the introduction, where necessary, of the principle that men and women ought to receive equal pay for equal work.

Last year in Lisbon, the Union made an historic choice in addressing these questions.

I want to address three points.

Let me return to a number of issues.

We must analyse these chains and deal with the issues in depth, and we must also deal with responsibility in the event of serious negligence.

It does not wish to tackle tax issues.

However, it is absolutely right to address broader issues.

However, there are European issues we need to address.

Not only do we lack scientific rigour in our approach, but we are possibly going to come into conflict with the WTO.

Besides sound fiscal and budgetary management, cooperation will be further pursued on reforms in Jordan's public sector in view of improving public finance management, but also its overall efficiency and service delivery capacities.

These are all important questions, which we will be addressing together with the rapporteur, Mr Casaca, over the next few weeks and months.

There are two other questions which we would like to deal with here.

Finally, we consider that tourism can, in addition to being a growth factor, be a factor for democracy, and in this regard we are asking the Commission for a clear, conscious commitment.

However, I should like to raise three points which perhaps merit our attention.

I just want to touch on two other points he raised.

I would like to bring a few minor aspects to the fore.

I should like to address two points made by the Commissioner.

Let me raise some issues that need highlighting.

coordinated plans aiming at addressing issues of particular interest.

I do not wish to refer to issues that should be dealt with by the rapporteur, whom I must congratulate, even though he is not here, not only on his work, but also on the sensitivity that he has shown on these issues affecting workers, who often lack training and preparation.

I appeal to you to deal with these issues as a matter of priority.

To ensure that the stability of integrated European financial markets will be well protected , a common legal framework is needed to address these issues .

It is, of course, easy for me to agree with Mr Färm about these viewpoints. There ought to be a way in to these issues in the Commission too.

I should like to go briefly into, or at least touch on, two problems.

It is quite clear that we have to address exactly the same issues.

I will concentrate, then, on a few points I disagree about.

Mr President, my group has given me another two minutes, and so I can deal with a number of the questions put by some of my fellow Members.

Those are political questions, economic questions, strategic questions.

So certainly we must make sure that we have our affairs in order in Europe but anybody reporting these issues should never forget that it is not just the European Union that needs to address those issues seriously.

These are all, these are national issues.

The EMCDDA is starting to address these questions but this cannot be done satisfactorily until basic descriptive data is improved.

Instead, we need to tackle these matters as individual states and take tougher measures to discourage traffickers and bogus asylum seekers.

Association of Colored Women in 1904, are addressing a number of issues.

I'm much more trying to add to some of the questions we're talking about.

There are many products which can no longer be used in the Community but which are exported to third countries and come back in our foodstuffs so back comes the pollution!

NEWTON DUNN (PPE). Mr President, my colleague Sir Christopher Prout is completely right.

My second point is that we should be economically open, and we also have to tackle difficult topics sometimes.

Mr President in Office, there are two issues I would like to raise.