We debated the problem.

And we struggle with how to deal with them.

We discussed the problem far into the night.

But there is no doubt that this new phase is also the phase of democratic legitimacy of the Community.

So, we gather around, we discuss about problems and social problems and talk about it.

The proposal under discussion today, called 'MIRIAM', is proposed in order to help to fill this gap.

Yet we regularly debate issues of racism, xenophobia and antisemitism.

DONNELLY, rapporteur. Mr President, when we debated the legislative package on Monday we received some comments from the Commission.

demands, but the Commission is willing to seek a solution which would enrich the spirit and practice of cooperation between Parliament and the Commission in the context of the annual legislative programme which we shall be planning again this year.

I think the need is arising, as some of us have been insisting, to review, at least in these fields, a philosophy which failed to look beyond the comforting and of course necessary stage of pre competitive cooperation.

It goes without saying that the proposed directive we are now discussing is intended to increase the possibilities for exemption which arc of benefit to such companies.

We could not receive any comments from the Council because they, sadly, were not in attendance when we were debating German unification.

Everybody I mean, we debate over what's fair but everybody agrees that harm and fairness matter.

However, risk prevention must be extended to all female workers, since pregnancy is not necessarily

As we discussed during the section presidents' lunch, the presidents should take a more active stand concerning the follow up of Opinions.

Well, you know, we really, we argue and debate about it we say it's climate, it's soil, it's this. Well, guess what?

Which is curious as we debate all this stuff. But as you think of coal, this is what burned wheat kernels look like. Not entirely unlike coal.

I do appreciate that Parliament has a packed agenda, but unfortunately we debate issues over which this Parliament has no competence.

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The Committee of Inquiry is presenting a report on racism and xenophobia, and in connection with that an oral question with debate has been tabled and it is that that we are discussing.

I do not care what anyone from the Commission or Council might say having a regulatory committee procedure puts enormous powers in the hands of the Council and the Commission and excludes the European Parliament.

When we get together with friends and family and we discuss crime in our country, crime in Belmont or crime in Diego or crime in Marabella, nobody's speaking about corruption.

I believe it is only right to await the outcome of the intergovernmental conference on institutional matters before embarking on a discussion on the entire issue of representation in the European Parliament.

PANDOLFI, Vice President of the Commission. (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I note that on this occasion the European Parliament has shown its very

So, this other book that Steve mentioned, that just came out, called The Three Laws of Performance, my colleague, Steve Zaffron and I, argue that as people see the world, so they behave.

Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works as he puts it, we fight and argue as hard as we can, but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too.

Increased mobility can be encouraged by a whole series of measures suggested in the report.

The Commission initially made a proposal. That proposal was modified in the light of Parliament's first reading, then substantially reworked and to some extent, I have to say, improved in the common position of the Council.

Turning to Amendment NoT8, the threshold for intraCommunity purchases beyond which taxation in the country of destination applies in certain cases must necessarily, in all logic, refer to purchases liable to tax in the Member State of origin.

So I am happy today, Mr President, to feel that some yeats aftet its recognition by the Spanish Constitution and subsequently by the Statute of Catalonia, the Catalan language is achieving international tecognition for the first time in its history, thanks to this step the European Parliament is about to take.

GRAEFE ZU BARINGDORF (V). (DE) Mr President, I find it unutterably tasteless and an insult to all women and mothers for the mother's womb to be described as the most risky place for the child in Germany or Europe.

ROUMELIOTIS (S), rapporteur. (GR) Mr President Commissioner, Ladies en Gentlemen, the report we are debating refers to the competences of the Commission, both within the Community's territory and in its external relations.

cooperation and peacemaking, eliminating all means of mass destruction, through more general disarmament and the elimination of other means of warfare, by creating a climate not only of peace but also democracy and respect of human rights and, at the same time but even more importantly, improving the conditions of workers in Europe, improving the plight of countries which at present are lagging behind in terms of development.

CASSANMAGNAGO CERRETO (PPE). (IT) Mr President, the Romeos report on behalf of the Political Affairs Committee has appeared most opportunely at a time when the whole of Europe is realising the need for an adequate structure that reflects the new balances and aspirations towards peace of all the people of Europe.

draft amendments to sections I, II, IV and V of the draft general budget of the Communities for 1991 relating to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee, the Court of Justice and the Court of Auditors '

Any country can automatically avail itself of this opportunity, or more specifically the foreign citizens or our own citizens making purchases of a non commercial nature.

We have worked and are still working to make conciliation between the institutions a real fact, an ongoing reality, convinced as we are that the delicacy, complexity and importance of the subject makes it essential that decisions are made in a spirit of great and harmonious collaboration.

To put you fully in the picture, the technical effects of the amendment would have been as follows

But quite apart from this possibility, we suggest that though might be given also to a new resource, to be raised by pooling what we might call a direct tax on income, to confer responsibility on all the citizens of Europe, but also, in addition, a tax on resources, all resources.

First, let me take a famous philosopher who wrote about those questions of justice and morality, give you a very short lecture on Aristotle of ancient Athens, Aristotle's theory of justice, and then have a discussion here to see whether Aristotle's ideas actually inform the way we think and argue about questions today.

Dr. Atkins and I debated each other many times before he died, and we agreed that Americans eat too many simple carbs, the bad carbs, and these are things like sugar, white flour, white rice, alcohol. And you get a double whammy you get all these calories that don t fill you up because you ve removed the fiber, and they get absorbed quickly so your blood sugar zooms up.

PASTY (RDE). (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the year 1990 now drawing to a close has been marked by extraordinary political upheavals in Europe, with the collapse of the communist regimes in the east and the completion of German unification within a timescale that noone would have dreamt possible a yeat ago.

The institutional balance, bearing all that in mind, is this cooperation between two institutions which represent two different legitimate bodies of interest, via a third which has only one weapon, its right of initiative, with which to prevent disagreement between Council and Parliament or inconsistency in proposed initiatives or texts.

ARIAS CAÑETE (PPE), rapporteur. (ES) Mr Pre sident, as may be gathered from the explanatory statement, the proposal for a regulation that we are debating is a transitional measure adapting structural policy in the fisheries sector, something which is not covered by the overall revision of the rules governing the structural funds, scheduled for 1993, as are the other structural policies of the Community.