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Aicha el Wafi Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

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RANDZIO PLATH (S). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlement, the new generation of agreements with Eastern and Central Europe responds to a repeatedly stated interest of Parliament.

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So, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, take a look at this.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in order to succeed, we must unite further.

VAN MIERT, Member of the Commission. (FR) Mr President, first of all I must make President Delors' apologies.

So, ladies and gentlemen, at TED we talk a lot about leadership and how to make a movement.

(S). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to comment on three points.

Sending somebody to school and giving them medicines, ladies and gentlemen, does not create wealth for them.

ROVSING (ED). (DA) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, our group can heartily support this pro gramme.

On the particular question of enabling the competent authorities to authorize exceptionnally other uses for such material, I can inform you that I have received considerable correspondence from a variety of special interests such as those farming maggots as bait for the millions of fish anglers in the Community and from other similar special interests.

GLINNE (S), in writing. (FR) As I said during the debate and also when it was adopted in Committee, I think this is a good report and one which deserves to be adopted by the House in the form in which the Committee approved it.

Hence our proposal that unanimity should be replaced by a qualified majority.

STAVROU (PPE), rapporteur. Mr President, I would like to thank you for your comments, and at the same time, as one who is directly involved, to express the profoundest bitterness, my own and that of Mrs Peijs, because there is no precedent for this or perhaps there is, as you have told us but I don't think there has been a precedent relating to an important report that affects the entire Community.

SCHLEICHER (PPE). (DE) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, we can talk about future Community policy as much as we like.

The general lack of clarity in the situation is illustrated by the infrastructure requirement under the structural funds.

I am well aware that we cannot just rely on the UN, applauding some of its decisions and some of the articles in its statute.

VON WOGAU (PPE). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I wish briefly to explain why we have voted against this compromise motion.

Ladies and gentlemen, with a combination of smart people, smart technology and smart investments, polio can now be eradicated anywhere.

The strength of politics in a pluralist democracy certainly does not lie in putting a stop to excessive demands on the national product when all the various interested parties and electors make rival claims.

A few moments ago, the President in Office of the Council said 'Dialogue, yes negotiation, no.'

I know that comparisons, including comparisons of budget items, are inappropriate, but even so.

We are living at a time when European and North American governments are we hope joining with the Soviet Union in trying to resolve conflicts peacefully and to help those forced to flee to find new lives.

Ladies and gentlemen , it is a pleasure for me to participate in an event organised by the Official Spanish Swiss Chamber of Commerce . Thank you for the invitation .

Ladies and gentlemen, can any one of you tell me a neighbor, a friend, a relative that you know, who became rich by receiving charity?

There is no denying that xenophobia exists, despite or precisely because of increased prosperity.

Ladies and gentlemen, generally speaking Mr Stavrou's resolution can serve as the Community's standpoint in the Uruguay Round.

Unless there is proper research and development in the Community, generic medicines cannot prosper in the Community either.

Young people are very interested in these programmes, and we must not fob them off.

SELIGMAN (ED). Could the President in Office tell us what is likely to happen if hostilities commence in the Gulf?

NIANIAS (RDE). (GR) I thank the Council's representative for his answer.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, some evidence Dan Ariely, one of the great economists of our time, he and three colleagues, did a study of some MIT students.

DE CLERCQ (LDR), rapporteur. (NL) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today we are dealing with a new agreement between the European Community and one of the countries of Eastern Europe.

PANNELLA (NI). (FR) Mr President, you say that this bright lighting is needed for the television cameras.

PRESIDENT. (GR) I thank the general rapporteur.

FRIEDRICH (PPE). (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the original version of the Commission's small and mediumsized companies directive was a really good thing.

EWING (ARC). Mr President, I rise on behalf of my group to express my agreement with all that the other speakers have said about this compromise text.