I congratulate you on your success.

I congratulate you on a job well done.

I congratulate you on your success.

You both won. I congratulate both of you.

I congratulate you on a job well done.

improve the existing cooperation procedure.

My compliments to the hands that made this possible.

I congratulate General Muhammadu Buhari for this feat.

This situation is only partly due to the increase in Community production.

I never thought I'd say this, but Venediktov did pretty well.

Given the current crisis, I congratulate him.

Nor will they have any voting, speaking or any other rights in this House.

I shall come back to that briefly in a moment to say how happy the Commission is that, thanks to the Italian presidency, we have made considerable progress towards ensuring that the two intergovernmental conferences will be a success.

Mr Ripa de Meana, you stated that the containers are tested and that you are therefore reassured.

LANE (RDE). Mr President, I also compliment the two rapporteurs.

COX (LRD). Mr President, I do not want to reopen the debate and I respect your request to be brief.

ANDRIESSEN. (NL) So you see, even with Question Time you cannot be sure there will not be some acrobatics.

How is this principle to be defined ? Thanks to the work of President Giscard d'Estaing your Committee on Institutional Affairs has come up with a definition which underlines the fact that this principle has to work both ways.

We have worked effectively as politicians and as civil servants to ensure that the European perspective has been applied throughout, until the second reading and of course the sad thing is that in the second reading of this legislation the Council has chosen to break ranks.

But when it comes to the operational budget, I do not congratulate Mr Lamassoure on his policy options.

Finally, a pillar of our future federal union must be recognition of the right of every citizen of the union to initiate legislation and to be consulted, where appropriate, by way of referendum.

It should at least be ensured that the Spanish texts, say, arc translated if the appropriate Commissioners cannot be present.

I must express serious concern over recent develop ments in European satellite television.

Moreover, a number of proposals are unrealistic, even dangerous in the current climate of social legislation and the economic situation of our Member States. I am thinking of the 35hour week, a basic guaranteed wage for Community citizens, the introduction of a quota of women's representatives in all sectors of working life.

BLOT (DR). (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I congratulate Mr Lamassoure and Mrs Theato on the technical quality of their reports.

I would congratulate the rapporteur most sincerely on this thoroughness, his hard work, his spirit of collaboration and above all on his political common sense.

I would like to thank Parliament for dealing with this matter in the urgent way that it has and congratulate the rapporteur on his report.

We have overcome the problems facing us jointly and have achieved a satisfactory solution.

What I'm trying to say is that if action has been taken, I congratulate the Commissioner, because behind that there are thousands of jobs and tonnes of meat sold.

Sadly, it seems that the Commission, as well as this House, is prepared to bow to this pressure.

But we must also preserve specific areas of culture, and traditional hunting is one of these.

The decisions taken within the WEU were based on the discussion within political cooperation which determined convergence of actions on the part of the Member States, finalized at the Paris meeting.

We have had a problem because East Germany was a point of entry for a lot of Eastern European agricultural produce.

The Commission considers that its proposal, accepted by all Community institutions, responds to the desire to guarantee the best possible organization of the inherent processes.

I would also like to draw attention to the difficulty of enforcement that the Commission text sets itself.

RAWLINGS (ED). Mr President, I congratulate my colleague Mrs Rønn on her work in preparing this important report for the Committee on Women's Rights.

Salute to these brave girls, who are determined to move ahead and succeed in life and are not getting cowed down despite the violence they have suffered.

And a question. Has the Commissioner heard, today being of course a holiday in America, whether President Bush has in fact vetoed the Textile Bill as expected ?

I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

It preps you. It aims you.

PS Don't get off! Don't get off! Don't get off!

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

When thou goest, it shall lead thee when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

You are informed or misinformed, or just wrongly informed.

On non life insurance alone, we have the first and second directives already approved, the one we are discussing now, amending the first two, and the third already published in fact, Mr Rothley which will undoubtedly raise all the problems referred to by the rapporteur.