Surely a trifling figure for so sublime a slave.

I should like to raise two points in this context.

After all, and I have said it before, for the Community that debt represents a truly derisory amount.

This in itself is a paltry sum given the extent of the problem.

The share of Europe' s trade with Mexico has fallen back to simply ridiculously low levels.

All I can say to this planned union is no thank you.

A derisory fine is little deterrent to multi millionaire drug pushers.

Even if they did their jobs, and they cited those facilities for their violations, the fine would be derisory.

Are we not witnessing a reenactment of the ludicrous but tragic situation that we saw not so long ago in Lebanon?

When compared with the agricultural sector as a whole, the final beneficiary s sum may seem small.

National strategies resolutely combat crime linked to the trafficking ofcannabis.

She's going to find out that she gets a pitiful amount of money off our government for looking after what's happened to her.

At present some countries have no penalty whatsoever, some impose a very small fine and in some countries the fines are perhaps too penal.

NICHOLSON (PPE), in writing. This Parliament has a long and distinguished position on human rights, not only within Europe but also in the wider world.

The issue of threshold values proposed by the Commission, above which a public contract will be open to Community regulation, seems rather risible.

Because none of the dangerous substances that I have mentioned causes the death of 430 000 people in the Community every year and that is the official figure communicated to me by Mrs Papandreou on 12 March last in reply to a written question.

Any doubt on that score will have been dispelled by the first motion for a resolution on the conflict to come before us, which is a derisory, puny offering at such a time, concerned as it is with the adverse repercussions on tourism.

Those, briefly, are the reasons why I consider it necessary, in this instance, to vote for the Defraigne report and I believe it may be that were we to be apprised of the outcome of actions every time authorization for proceedings has been given and of the reasons why the Naples courts have not brought proceedings, we would be able to shed some light on the rotten state of justice in Italy.

Obviously, if there is little movement during the day, a small increase in noise levels could be acceptable in view of the almost ridiculously small number of planes passing through.

Unfortunately we have used up a great deal of energy and wasted a great deal of time on a dispute which seems to me to be trivial, given the size of the challenges we have to meet in Asia and in Latin America.

You will appreciate that this prevents him from presenting his views here.

There were selectively too few ballot stations, identity cards were seized, the media was not allowed to do its job and the observation of the elections was a joke.

I wish to discuss what may be called the overall ceiling on expenditure as determined by the 1988 Interinstitutional Agreement. Our view of it is that it imposes

It lies at the very core of its constitution, and we have built and made progress around it in a process that has almost always been difficult, and also polemical, since upon this management depends nothing less than the allocation of resources to the various community fleets and the guarantee of the development or survival of the enterprises and of the fisheries sector.

This self satisfaction is ridiculous, because the heads of the large companies that engage in these activities pay infinitely more heed to the interests of their major shareholders than to the opinion of the European Parliament.

More recently, it has had to be admitted that what was going wrong with development in the South was caused by a much more complex process and that only longterm action had a chance of putting things right.

Describing his new bishopric, Gregory lamented how it was nothing more than an utterly dreadful, pokey little hole a paltry horse stop on the main road ... devoid of water, vegetation, or the company of gentlemen ... this was my Church of Sasima!

The Commission' s declared intention to regulate the conditions of competition on the European market is ridiculous, for the only law which competition respects is the law of the jungle where the most powerful squash or devour the weakest elements.

I believe that the numbers of immigrants coming into the Community in certain places where they tend to congregate are coming to a level which puts at risk the acceptance of these people by the people who already live there.

Furthermore, the Court's judicial work, the study of the relevant documents, its research, deliberation and drafting prior to reaching a decision on the various cases before it, must necessarily remain in the hands of the Members of the Court, assisted by their chambers.

It is not without some amusement that we have seen you, in your pathetic rivalry with Mr Patten, present this delightful and most charming argument one day you told a German newspaper, I am the one that the Americans phone up .

The budgetary impact of protein crops is derisory in comparison with that of cereals and, although the United States set out requirements for protein crops, this was in exchange for accepting the high level of support for export refunds on Community cereals.

Europe, of course, is no more united than any of the others, because it is here, within this poor assembly, supposedly committed to a laughable common foreign and security policy, that we find the fiercest defenders of the US line, together with its most determined opponents.

The Bangladesh issue has given rise to less debate, and it is unlikely that there are any political interests involved moreover, the West perhaps assumes with the same fatalism as in the East but with rather more hypocrisy or cynicism that these things are simply destined to happen.

Whether in microelectronics, mainframe systems or integrated circuitry, the technological achievements which follow from the programmes give rise must be used for industrial development which helps our Community. Research and development must go hand in hand with a proper industrial policy which today is sadly lacking.