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.

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

Why has this matter been raised again?

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

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.

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

Transitional measures are necessary in some sectors.

The first step was to ask a question.

Yet every attempt by Greece even to raise the issue was brutally rebuffed by its counterparties.

Chekhov said, The solution to a problem and the correct way of posing the question are two completely separate things.

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

Thus, apart from political union, it is necessary to guarantee in the immediate term the success of the first phase of Economic and Monetary Union.

Consequently Europe, as it is being built at present, is in danger of erecting a new and involuntary barrier against the countries of Eastern Europe.

That is why the Commission proposed a special financial instrument which would make it possible for the Community, both in the form of direct grants to cover expenditure and in the form of loans, to take action immediately major economic problems arise for a Member State or group of Member States or in the event that it proves to be a necessary precondition for the implementation of the third stage.

That is all to the good.

Tom hesitated to bring up the subject.

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

The other point I want to make is that we are talking all the time about the impact on farmers but it is not farmers only.

It's a complicated question.

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

This is a question of leadership, because it becomes a question of who leads the future.

In response to the tensions, Hong Kong's government has promised to raise the issue with Beijing, requesting authorities amend the multiple entry visa policy and impose a quota on entries into Hong Kong.

It is a moral question.

It's a very pressing matter.

This is a humanitarian issue, he says.

It is a question of democracy.

I think the initiative is a good one.

COX (LRD). Mr President, I do not wish to delay the House.

It is a question of principle.

I am trying to ask my questions in French.

That mission also comprised a team of heating specialists, which has assessed the situation in the orphanages and drawn up an inventory of what needs to be done and what spare parts are required to make the installations operational for the winter.

PRESIDENT. (GR) Mr Patterson, I see that you are getting tired of raising the same substantive point, but I shall not tire of repeating the same reply to you.

European social model, characterized by trade union freedom, equal treatment, no discrimination, the right to a sufficiently remunerated job, collective bargaining, public social protection, etc..

In their contacts with all the parties concerned in the region, the Community and its Member states have not ceased to raise the question of the hostages.

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

There's no matter of scale. It's not a question of scale, it's not a question of financial resources.

That's the argument I want to make tonight.

Nor is sympathy at work

It s a question of numbers, he said.

There is no issue that is more pressing.

It's all a question of climate.

That shouldn't even be a question.

And this is a major issue.

It s a matter of economics, really.