The Commission must come forward with a full programme of rural policy measures.

(Parliament adopted the agenda as amended

He was also a member of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology and of the Committee on Regional Policy.

MARQUES MENDES in this matter was quite apparent, as it will be, too in this vote at second reading.

assigning to the Commission tasks in connection with social policy (Article 144 EC)

What is clearly understood, Mr Colombo, can be clearly expressed !

The success of this embargo is the key to a happy, peaceful outcome to the conflict.

The Commission shall submit proposals to the Council for implementing the common commercial policy .

The strengthening of European Arab consultations and cooperation is needed more than ever before. The joint resolution rightly refers to the Community's duty to insist on democracy and respect for human rights in the Arab countries.

It is this policy that prepares the ground in which the seed of those parties and organizations which even to the naked eye are obviously racist and xenophobic germinates.

Report prepared by the Economic Policy Committee and the European Commission ( DG ECFIN ) .

Report prepared by the Economic Policy Committee and the European Commission ( DG ECFIN ) .

The economic situation is of course serious. There must be improvements trade agreements, the Phare pro gramme on cooperation and we also request the cancelling of some of Hungary's foreign debts which are a great burden.

The Commission ought really, Mr President, to tell us, either through the Regional Planning Committee or the Energy Committee, what it knows about this.

The Commission has responsibility for making proposals to the Council for implementing the common commercial policy .

In institutional terms, the problem is the Joint Committee.

LULLING (PPE), draftsman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy. (FR) Mr President, the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy generally has a reputation for realism and moderation.

Parliament has approved the proposal on which the Committee on Social Affairs, the general rapporteur, the Committee on Regional Policy and Regional Planning and othets insisted.

LAMBRIAS structural fund amendments recommended by Parliament at least to act on the basis of the Community spirit which pervades them.

You mentioned that there would now be six reports by the Committee on Regional Policy and Regional Planning on Thursday.

We only received the amendments, all 73 of them, three quartets of an hour ago the work being done here is anything but serious and the speed being shown does not allow of a careful study.

My view on this is quite the opposite of this new European radicalism.

DESMOND (S). May I thank the President in Office for his comprehensive reply.

The crucial point of telecommunications in Europe is the introduction of the integrated broad band communication as a result of the merging together of hitherto separate services for date, text and visual transfer.

For the first time, part of this aid can be used to support structutal adjustment measures.

The unification of Germany, the most potent symbol of which was the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, has to some extent precipitated the new relationship which is being forged in Europe.

In particular, by including the words 'so long as the prospect of a peaceful solution to the crisis exists', I feel we may have conceded the right to others to deem when no such prospect exists.

There is at present in the Transport Committee and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs a debate on the common railway policy.

Peaceful, diplomatic solutions presuppose negotiation, discussion, dialogue.

That action does not match up to the issues.

HARRISON (S), draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Regional Policy and Regional Planning. Mr President, I rise first of all to congratulate Mr Donnelly on his report and also for accepting, broadly, the amendments which I put forward on behalf of the Committee on Regional Policy and Regional Planning.

Does the Commission believe that this question should be considered at the forthcoming Intergovernmental Conference on political union ?

We must get used to this change of thinking, and the more quickly we do so the better it will be for Europe.

DILLEN the current trend and through an energysaving policy on the part of those who must implement this policy.

I therefore vote against this report and I appeal for a comprehensive open minded rethink of IT industry policy.

60. Endorses the decision of the Committee to grant permanent observer status to the European Space Policy Institute

But the increase in export refunds that we applied from the end of July included a substantial increase in export refunds of 25 to enable those animals to be exported outside the Community.

In this report we are dealing with proposals that are so complex that even the lobbies cannot understand them.

Aspects regarding the European standards policy will be examined in details in a Commission communication later this year.

All that is needed is political direction, so that the European Commission can establish the necessary governance structures.

It has taken almost four years for the Commission to come forward with its first policy statement on the elderly.

In advisory mode , the Committee will be consulted by the Commission on policy issues , as well as proposals in the banking sector .

We need employment creation schemes in the five new Länder and we look forward to measures coming forward from Germany to ensure that happens.

BETTINI (V). (IT) Mr President, since the Commissioner is required to respond to all the requests put during the debate, I would ask him to do that very thing.

The European Council noted, however, that these problems are not just confined to the Community states.