The report by our colleague Mr Donnelly is excellent.

So we entirely support that position on the part of our colleague.

To the health of our classmate, Horemheb!

Our colleague is a member of the Regional Executive of Campania.

He is a true advocate for European film.

We were happy to vote for the Markov report.

Let us therefore simply endorse the statement by Mr Arndt.

Having said that, we approve of our colleague's report on this subject.

Ladies and gentlemen, we greet our friend, our co worker, our hero,

If we do not take that approach we are going to be in the same pos ition we find ourselves in today.

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wise we will have to review our position for the second reading again.

You mean our comrades on the slope?

Only the warmongers and the drug traffickers derive any benefit from his grisly games, with the backing, of course, of the regional powers which harass the country relentlessly.

PRESIDENT. Mr McGowan, the Secretariat will change the Minutes accordingly.

I approved Mr Katiforis' s approach and arguments in committee.

I commend our colleague Mr McCubbin, the rapporteur, for his good work in this.

Our fellow Member has spoken of regional pride.

To this end, the report adopted by the Committee contains a series of constructive recommendations.

More than the forty thousand our colleague Mr Chanterie mentioned.

I would like to draw your attention to the excellent report by Mr Kirkhope on the subject.

In its time we adopted Mrs Herklotz's report in this House by a large majority, and now we are discussing the same question again because it seems to us that the Com munity's guidelines are not being applied carefully enough.

The lessons we learn from the past and the horrifying memories of these crimes must teach us to prevent this kind of thing ever happening again.

Furthermore, this situation is also ttue of the

More generally, I would say to our European Parliament officials as a professor of public finance that their reports are very inadequate because for the most part they compile them themselves, and they are not worth the salaries they are paid.

This is why I particularly welcome the excellent report by Mr Hughes Martin.

However, we are unable to agree to the text of the report, although I welcome the work carried out by Mr Schmidt, for several reasons.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, I will pass on our condolences to the family of the murder victim.

I would like to ask you to observe a minute' s silence in memory of our fellow Member.

I invite you to rise and observe a minute's silence in memory of our departed colleague.

My colleague, Mr Medina Ortega, has just interpreted the Commission's statement for us.

The reason I have been given for this is that to allow answers to be given would mean setting a precedent.

I would like to thank Mr Albert Jan Maat from the bottom of my heart.

Our colleague Dr Friedrich has already spoken about this.

President. We have learnt with distress of the death, on 27 December last, of our Greek colleague Mr Nikolaos Vgenopoulos.

I myself would have liked Mr Lamassoure's report to have included a table showing the solutions adopted in the twelve EC Member States and in the USA where the audit body is answerable directly to Congress.

This provision has recently been incorporated into our Rules of Procedure to cover precisely this type of case, following the precedent set by our colleague, Mr Tapie.

Our fellow MEP, Mr Imbeni, in his capacity as Parliament' s Vice President, is attending the Interparliamentary Meeting in Cuba on our behalf.

BLOT (DR). (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen. On the substance I agree with everything which has just been said by my colleague Bernard Antony and a few moments ago by my colleague, Karel Dillen.

I would add that it is for me a very special joy to recall the career of the man who was both my mentor and friend.

He and his wife have devoted their whole lives to the conservation of this animal.

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PISONI, Ferruccio ceptable acts of violence could help to eradicate such acts, provided it is combined with unremitting efforts to combat the social and political causes of terrorism, which we always denounce completely as a matter of principle.

I wish to start by congratulating Mr Imbeni on the quality of his report.

That being the case, we support Mr Pirker' s report.