I am trying to ask my questions in French.

PATTERSON (ED). Mr President, in reply to Mr Ford, I would say that he knows the Rules of Procedure very well indeed.

Tom hesitated to bring up the subject.

The first step was to ask a question.

McCUBBIN (S). Mr President, I would like to raise a serious point of order.

We all know the terms of that proposal Tarik Aziz to visit Washington, and Baker to visit Baghdad.

That's the argument I want to make tonight.

Why has this matter been raised again?

DE VRIES (LDR). Mr President, on the same point you just brought up.

Now let's turn to two countries, Country A and Country B.

The teapot problem I'll pose this way.

McCARTIN (PPE). Mr President, first of all I want to say that I regret that this issue has arisen and I certainly regret the problems in an Irish company, which has brought this situation about.

The same applies, moreover, when the international debt question is simply related back to the whole situation of the tropical forests.

Asking this question, and debating it politically, is more important than ever.

WURTZ (CG). (FR) Mr President, several dozen dead, several hundred injured and nearly a thousand arrested that is the terrible toll of the latest massacre perpetrated by the Israeli occupying forces against the Palestinian people.

The duty of Parliament is to ask questions and he well knows that.

PAISLEY (NI). Mr President, I wrote to you about the matter I am about to raise.

We need to postulate a completely different paradigm to explain all these phenomena.

Now, why do I think now is the moment to make this argument?

The third problem concerns the Community's future relations with the USSR.

No. But the thinking that we have to come up with has to be based on a realistic assessment of where we are.

HUGHES (S). Mr President, I just have a couple of points to make in the brief time available.

It may not be wrong to suggest that Indian e commerce is booming, but it s still at a nascent stage.

She felt able to ask questions of an intensely personal nature in place where she would find no judgement.

Well, the argument I'd like to make is that networks have value.

We would, however, find no difficulty in setting the period at two years from the outset.

For that reason it is essential that we should reconfirm that aim and stress that the doubling in question should be in real terms.

Grants must be increased so that it is not only young people from well to do families who can take advantage of them.

A more complex breakdown is possible, and other ideas should of course be vetted and discussed.

Furthermore, it will have to be demonstrated that the regional, local and national policies have the complementary character required by this directive.

However, if you reject this option, then either you will have no economic and monetary union or you will have a twospeed union.

As we look ahead, post Maastricht as it were, new challenges in this context should be met

In this respect , there should be adequate safeguards against the risks incurred and posed by payment institutions .

They're starting to talk about, How do you have the health community workers generate their own ideas?

Well, I think it's about four steps, roughly speaking, starting with posing the right question.

I can therefore assure Mr Blaney that we have been doing all we can and that we shall continue to do so.

During the votes at lunchtime today I tried to raise a point of order.

I tried to attract the attention of the President in the Chair but was unable to make a point of order.

What the Commission must do is not to take that mechanistic approach of cutting all our noncompulsory expenditure by 2 , but to identify

During the discussion period please feel free to raise any questions on other aspects of the ECB 's operations .

I should like to conclude with two specific questions to the Commission.

That could pose a potential danger to the society, but who knows we're in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries.

The Commission gives its full support to the first, sixth and eleventh amendments, either because they were accepted by the Commission after Par liament's vote on the first reading or because they make reference to the text of the Commission's original proposal.

Transitional measures are necessary in some sectors.

why the approach should be the same for each country regardless, or why, even, there should be a bias favouring countries such as Germany.