You've set a very high standard.

Let's up the stakes a little bit.

That high stakes have a strong impact.

I'm actually trying to lower the bar.

Should we in that case be adding more hoops that have to be passed through?

Our European project must not be allowed to trip up in this way.

However, setting the standards too high can be counterproductive.

It is time we moved the bar up a few notches and looked for new challenges.

Why is Europe aiming so high?

To raise the bar even further, I gave them a little bit more of a challenge.

But we should not lower our standards too much either.

Now let's do one more here where I'm really going to step up the stakes.

And I would only pay 99.50 so stay even below 100 for it.

This very high threshold of two thirds is a sad and unique case.

I could sit here all day long and just it's way above my pay scale.

This time, the stakes are higher... the personal danger proportionately greater.

We believe that the stakes are high, but that the returns will be even greater.

I have to say that the aims are rather ambitious, but we will do our best.

In my opinion, we should raise the standard for ourselves.

No one put the chances of reviving the Israel Palestine peace process at more than minimal.

We will set the bar high and I hope together, Council, Commission and Parliament, we can clear that bar.

The level has been raised so high that it is impossible even for the enlargement countries to achieve it.

As we will be able to finally judge at the end of this programme of negotiations, the hurdles have been set fairly high.

We have a saying in the Netherlands that goes 'if you set the standard too low you will trip over it' .

The ceiling above which an outsider' s server may be closed down must be set very high.

We must certainly not set the bar too low, nor too high, nor too close, nor too far away.

If we set up the hurdles wrong here, then we will not achieve the right environmental objective.

The level of 62 of the population has been replaced, according to some, by 71 and, according to others, by 73.49 in order to achieve a qualified majority.

It should also be noted that in the automobile sector, Europe's share of the Japanese market has fallen to below 3 .

I would urge the Presidency not to make extravagant gestures so that we do not end up paying for commitments which do not match up to our ambitions.

Likewise, China may have set the bar too high concerning the language that it has demanded in any general apology.

I personally think this twofold barrier, if it can be called that, is a little excessive and makes it rather difficult for amendments to be adopted.

In adopting such a stance, he set a very high standard, not just for the Austrian Government but, indirectly, for all the others too.

If I may add a comment in my view, we overestimated the TEN somewhat right from the outset.

We need to revise the competences of the European Union upwards, rejecting any kind of re nationalisation, weakening or curtailment of those which already exist.

At some point the hurdle will be so low that I can honestly say that I cannot lower it any further.

If we are going to abide by the one extreme, that is the interests of the Member States, then we certainly have every reason to make the hurdles that have to be cleared in applying for this card relatively high.

For a number of these points, demands are high. We do not want perfection but visible progress towards an average level we have in the current EU.

To us, the common position seems to be in some measure a retreat from the high water mark represented by Parliament's first reading position.

I can only recommend that everybody interested in Africa studies how they are setting the mark there.

This emerging strategic shift will likely have far reaching consequences, raising the stakes of Sino Japanese sparring over islands in the East China Sea.

I'm giving a short slide show this morning that I'm giving for the very first time, so well it's I don't want or need to raise the bar,

I say this today, if the bar is compromised and is too low, we will refuse to consider it and we will do so for Europe and we will do it in good conscience.

Voting was suspended because of a formal sitting and, when it resumed, there were not enough Members to pass the legendary milestone of 314 votes.

However, if we keep on overdoing it, we run the risk of producing exactly the opposite effect to the one we are seeking, and of producing real discrimination against women.