We have asked direct questions and we should have direct answers before we go to vote.

37133 4 % of total direct aid.

So there is no direct link.

Please allow me to make a direct reference.

Direct dialogue between the parties is essential.

Because we have known for a very long time that the market does n't fix it.

What it does fix, left to itself, is a great many things that can never be put right again.

We fix the guide price and then base compensation on the average market price.

There would seem to be scope for the admirable dictum: " if it ai n't broke, do n't fix it ".

I cannot accept that focus.

I want to focus on the regulations.

I want to focus on two matters.

It brings cultural diversity into focus.

The main focus is on prevention.

I believe we must have a level playing field but we must harmonise at a realistic level.

Caution and level - headedness are needed.

Because they have a different level of education.

At national level, situations are extremely disparate.

Sometimes there is confusion at national level.

When employing new staff, employers ask applicants whether they will become or plan to become parents.

Farmers then are told to diversify, to become multifunctional.

We need to harmonise and to become, as the saying goes, interoperable in different areas.

They need to become directly involved and given co - responsibility in order to improve their conditions.

He ought however to make it his business to become acquainted with the benefits of this sector.

We condemn anyone who uses violence to subvert political processes.

This imbalance has been upset.

And it will upset them retroactively.

In any case as there is another item first we cannot upset the agenda.

I am quite upset at the way the oral amendment was bounced.

Many of my colleagues are upset that no explicit reference is made to the rights of rapporteurs.

This is a blow that they just cannot cope with.

One bad news story may blow confidence in e - trade for years.

This new authority will not strike a blow for freedom in terms of consumer policy.

People 's faith in the rule of law and political power has been dealt a sharp blow.

The environmental organisations may be regarded as acting as blow lamps on us politicians.

This is where we hit a major problem.

17636 It is therefore women who have been hardest hit.

This is the first time that floods have hit our département.

The beef and veal sector has been doubly hit by disaster.

It is true that pigfarmers have been hit by an historic slump in prices.

It has a knock - on effect.

We learn from our knock - backs, albeit with some delay.

It has a knock - on effect in other areas, especially where there are shared coastlines.

This has a knock - on effect on other companies as well.

These environmental problems have a knock - on effect beyond coastal regions to inland regions.

You can move a sack of potatoes around Europe more easily than a citizen can move.

Every time you try to move a country or move a continent, history grabs you by the ankles.

We must move in this direction.

I think that would be a good move.

We can only welcome such a move.

We must strike a balance between them.

No doubt they strike a happy medium.

I should like finally to strike a biblical note.

Twelve political prisoners dead from hunger strike.

We need always to strike the right balance.

We must no longer accept this as a stroke of fate but must do something about it.

hat does not alter the outcome.

Entire families are being sacrificed on the asphalt alter.

That might alter the whole attitude and the possibilities.

It does not alter the general structures of the proposal.

We should alter the staff regulations and disciplinary procedures and, especially, change our practice.

I would ask you to amend the attendance register accordingly.

Our second option is to amend the common position.

We are therefore proposing to amend the regulations as follows.

I would like to amend what is in the verbatim report.

Greece reports that it needs to amend its penal law.

This change will not require a change in the proposal.

We must bear in mind that times change and the standards change with them.

This change is a complicated change.

Not for change piled upon change, but for stability.

This situation must change.

I should not like to deviate from that practice.

I want to emphasise that this handling of phthalates does not deviate from toxicological routine.

Additional stress should not now be caused them through having them deviate from their normal rhythm.

A more balanced economic policy mix is required.

I do not think we can mix things up in this way.

We no longer have any need for elected representatives to devise the right policy mix.

The common position lacked any vision whatsoever; it was a pick - and - mix with something for everyone.

The energy mix will no longer be the same.

The most important common principle is to give primacy to voluntary return over forced return.

Without that normality cannot return.

I will return to this point.

I will return to this point later.

I shall return to this subject shortly.

Quite the reverse, in fact.

The reverse is often true.

We must reverse that trend.

Quite the reverse in fact.

1242 Quite the reverse, in fact.

On their return, the transporters must send back completed route plans to the same competent authority.

And indeed there is a twofold shift.

That shift in position did not spread.

Firstly, the danger of a shift towards an intergovernmental approach.

The desired modal shift will come under review again then.

Above all, we must persuade governments not to shift the blame onto each other.

Liberals start with their own responsibility and do not shuffle it off on to succeeding generations.

I said that it was in the natural order of things that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

This is not just a technical revolution, but a complete organisational revolution as well.

8254 We are witnessing a new industrial revolution.

But we should try for institutional revolution.

An information technology revolution is certainly upon us.

The rest of us should start a counter - revolution.