And so there's something to be said about naïveté.

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We should not be so naïve as to think otherwise.

We Socialists reject the liberals' naïve optimism on this point.

This is a naïve and dangerous assumption.

It also, however, suffers from a most curious naivety.

Finally, an energy conservation pro gramme should be established.

Now, that's absurdly naive for two reasons.

And I, naively by this stage, said, Oh, yes, sure.

I cannot understand the naivety of many of the tabled amendments.

You jig, you amble, you lisp. You nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance.

A roadside billboard stating IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN OIL WELL...GET ONE!

So that is a good example for our naive Commission to emulate.

In my simplicity, I had imagined that democratic decisions were always voluntary.

Mr. Gillman says, shows daring and ingenuity, The trail of an adventurous spirit.

But it would be naïve of us to assume that such battles will not continue, and indeed naïve of this Parliament not to imagine that such people will take those positions.

Because we also need your intellectual capital your ideas, your skills, your ingenuity.

Now I say naively because actually my profession is as a science writer.

We were right to be naive, although, of course, we were ahead of our time.

In February 1988, Randi tested the gullibility of the media by perpetrating a hoax of his own.

The events of the past have turned the situation upside down, but the process of democratization is still in its early stages, it still has to attain its final objectives.

We feel that, in this respect, there may have been a certain naive short sightedness.

Mr Speciale's report must be seen as one part of an integrated policy within the Community which deals with the future of the maritime sector.

Despite the relative simplicity of the material, paper automata require a high degree of technical ingenuity.

In other words, what the world is expecting of us is openness, commitment free from naivety.

By this I mean that some of our fellow Members are rather naïve.

This is by no means a tactical position or an expression of political naiveté.

We have also been given many examples of how naive some of the private sector players can be.

Otherwise, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the European Community will lose the industrial competition in which it is now engaged, and that competition is vital !

Copenhagen was described yesterday morning by the Danish Prime Minister as a watershed, but I do not think it was.

It was naive of us not to give our European negotiators a clear brief on social and environmental dumping.

Tokyo began with a stunningly banal statement, namely that there was such a thing as unemployment!

Europe must be more open to Japanese products, but only as open as the Japanese market is to European products.

Even one like, say, Tickle Me Elmo which, despite its ingenuity, really only does one thing, whereas boxes offer an infinite number of choices.

We don't want to be left at the back door of the European Home we also want to help finance this part of the European Home.

For the rest, as I have said, I have carefully noted what has been said here so as to inform the Council at its next meeting.

We are not so naïve, however, as to expect this to be achieved by the current European institutions, which are all completely committed to private interests.

But even those who are in favour cannot be so naive as to grant this aid unconditionally.

It also has to be said and Professor Garcia was emphatic about this just now that it is naive to organize training courses to teach farming to farmers.

On the contrary, we need clear priorities with competitive prospects. Mr Samland hit the nail on the head when he said that European aerospace is one such area.

FLYNN, Member of the Commission. Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mr De Vries on his report and to thank all those who have contributed to the debate.

COONEY (PPE). I have to say at the outset that the political naivety of the European Community in the face of Israeli intransigence is quite staggering.

I feel that one would have to be extremely naive, and not, one hopes, just corrupt, to believe that such a body might be truly objective.

Idealism and blindness in the facilities given to all refugees whether political or not, 500 000 of them in 1992, one million in 1993.

Here there is indeed a great deal at stake. With a mere three million employees, the European Community textile and clothing industry is one of our most important industrial sectors.