BOCKLET (PPE), in writing. (DE) I shall vote for Amendment 52 because 1 regard it as a basically acceptable stopgap solution whereby the populations of the five new federal Lander can be represented until the Treaty is amended and the number of German MEPs increased accordingly.

I should like to ask the Commissioner whether he is satisfied that the package of remedies that I have been reading about today and have been hearing rumours of for some time, will be anything more than a stopgap that they will be anything more than a temporary dole to maintain the small, family or medium sized farmer during the lifetime of the present owner occupier of farms ?