Warm greetings!

Regards.

Compliments of the season

We are greatly indebted to him.

My sincere congratulations to the rapporteur.

Again, congratulations!

And first and last the hearty welcome.

Churchill drew a deceptively simple lesson.

But what we got was the usual warm words.

So, well done, my dear Mr Vander Taelen.

And sometimes officers are not as considerate as I think they should be.

As they will have heard, the House extends a very warm welcome to them and hopes their meetings in the context of EU Latin American relations are fruitful.

In the meantime he and his family occupied themselves with keeping warm.

Otherwise, I can only repeat my thanks to you for your work.

Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, Douglas 1,376,957 votes, Breckinridge 849,781 votes, and Bell 588,789 votes.

In spite of the treaty, relations between the two sides were not always cordial.

In the name of the Members of this House I cordially welcome you to the European Parliament.

We know that these qualities will mean that you will direct the work of this Assembly, taking account not only of the overall interests of Europe but also the interests of each of the political groups and Members.

I am delighted to have the opportunity this afternoon to extend a warm welcome to Dr Jong Wook Lee, the recently elected Director General of the World Health Organization, and his colleagues, who are in the official gallery this afternoon.

That makes me wonder just how many of these warm words will be turned into reality.

We'll put the matter to a vote.

Yet the Environment Ministers did meet under the UK Presidency, although their labours produced little results.

Mrs Isler Beguin 251 votes Mrs Lehideux 35 votes

These relate in particular to the inviolability of frontiers, non intervention in internal affairs, fulfilment of obligations under international law the first basket also provides for 'confidence building measures' (in cluding prior notification of major military manoeuvres). noeuvres).

For decisions taken by a simple majority each Member of the Council has one vote. The majority of decisions are made by a qualified majority decisions can be taken by a simple majority in less than 10 cases.

These tasks can be divided up into rights of initiative, legislative powers and supervisory powers over the Commission (e.g. it may lodge complaints about Commis sion decisions) and, with regard to rules of procedure, over the Court of Justice, and the right to appoint the members of other institutions (e.g. Economic and Social Committee, Court of Auditors).

I do not think we should continue debating whether there is cause for scepticism about your answer.

Thank you for your commitment and congratulations on the success you have achieved in making us more open.

Where the Council acts by a qualified majority (54 votes) votes are weighted as follows Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom have 10 votes, Spain 8 votes, Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands and Portugal 5 votes, Denmark and Ireland 3 votes and Luxembourg 2 votes (Article 148 of the EEC Treaty).

The votes cast were as follows Mr Diamandouros, 294 votes, Mr Perry, 215 votes.

Votes cast 439 Absolute majority 220 The following candidates received majority Mrs Pery 324 votes Mrs Fontaine 307 votes Mr Barzanti 290 votes Mr Martin 279 votes Mr Peters 276 votes Mr Cravinho 269 votes Mr Anastassopoulos 266 votes Mr Romeos 246 votes Mr Capucho 246 votes Mr Estgen 244 votes Sir Jack Stewart Clark 234 votes Mrs Magnani Noya 233 votes Mr Verde i Aldea 232 votes

Mr Ó Neachtain, I send my warm regards to your close friends and constituents.

The individual results were

It means votes.

I shall come back to this at a later point.

THE WEIGHTING OF VOTES IN THE COUNCIL Members of the Council Weighted votes

I think that point at least is sufficiently clear.

Not as many votes.

Pak Votes

You must vows.

Votes cast 446

Albania is not like that.

Surely 260 votes means an absolute majority?

Votes cast 583.

Votes cast 579.