Sorry, I hate to carry on...

Blanchard should know better than to persist with this fiasco.

Why insist on pensions?

But after some nagging, I got him to do that.

However, this directive provides for transfrontier transmission of high voltage electricity.

I congratulate you, in fact, because that already constitutes progess of a sort.

The Opposition needs to immediately insist on a vote of no confidence.

They do not add anything to the needs of the hour and I regret very much that he said them.

Many people raised points of order and said that he had put it the wrong way.

will be formed in Europe, based on the element of discrimination.

It is vitally important that all the Community's regions, and particularly the less de veloped ones on the periphery, be given an opportunity to share in the benefits of monetary union.

In particular, the European Commission should insist that Ukraine be able to continue to import gas from Gazprom in order to augment European supplies.

GOEDMAKERS (S). (NL) Mr President, Parliament held its first debate on this programme in Juñe.

To achieve her goal, she prefers to emphasize her essence, thereby countering Sarkozy s stress on his record as a doer.

In the face of such atrocities, it is difficult to insist that individual rights are absolute.

We welcome the Commission's announcement of a forthcoming pro posal for a directive reducing such emissions.

Here too there is need for much research.

And I thank Mr Bangemann once again for having acknowledged this.

The KRG s decision not to insist on holding a referendum on independence augurs well for stability in Iraq and the region.

But what is urgently needed is a strong complementary focus on job creation to preserve and foster Durkheim s organic solidarity.

However, we need to give it some teeth. There have been plenty of studies, and perhaps we need more, but we also need action programmes that are designed to get things moving.

I agree fully with him that what we should be seeking with countries like these is to make sure that the farmers and the communities that we are trying to help get a system that not only covers quantity of produce but guarantees a realistic price.

In this direction, once again, the indications that the European Parliament is about to give, through the debate and adoption of Mr Colombo's excellent report, represent a contribution that cannot be withdrawn.

The ethos of Israel s far right consists in its insistence on blurring this distinction.

It is now clear once agains, Mr President, that this rule may face us with situations such as this, and I strongly recommend the Bureau and the enlarged Bureau to drop the rule.

To conclude this section , let me stress that it is essential for the ECB to make it absolutely clear that its main objective is stability .

In conclusion I must stress the importance we attach to a very broad and very complete definition of atypical employment.

I therefore call on the Commission once again to stand by the Parliament.

The Germans were smart to insist on putting the European Central Bank there.

It cannot avoid taking sides by insisting publicly on austerity rules but then acquiescing when member states break them.

To achieve her goal, she prefers to emphasize her essence, thereby countering Sarkozy s stress on his record as a doer.

It is of course important to us that the Council and Parliament adopt definitively as quickly as possible the transitional measures to apply to the territory of the present GDR and I agree with Mr Donnelly when he lays down a deadline for their approval.

We should insist upon it in our own school systems and then insist upon it in others systems.

However, at the same time as Mr Metten has said we must insist on reciprocity.

And central bankers are right to insist on structural reforms and credible plans for balancing budgets in the long term.

In relation to another point made by the honourable Member I would reply in the following way the total production in the Community is about 1.5 million tonnes, but we still have to export about 170 000 tonnes.

When a country requires assistance, it is tempting for lenders to insist on a long list of reforms.

That position was made public on 9 October in a declaration whose text was forwarded to the European Parliament.

But as things stand, we are not going to put up with the kind of invective recently published in The Economist.

GOLLNISCH (DR). (FR) Mr President, I should like to dwell for a moment on this interpretation of Rule 64 which you have just given.

Today, Greece s European creditors seem ready to abandon their solemn pledges on the irrevocability of the euro in order to insist on collecting some crumbs from the country s pensioners.

If one reads through the document, a whole number of questions are raised but not answered.

The motion for a resolution Doc. B3 2097 90 will be put to the vote at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday.

It teaches them to accept authority, revelation and faith instead of always insisting on evidence.

In the same way, where the peripheral regions are concerned, the convergence achieved on the desirability of instituting the PERIFRA line can only have positive effects.