Meeting after meeting, prime ministers, ministers, representatives, visits, but still no results.

This was a very valuable meeting.

30384 We must arrange a meeting.

I heard a call for a summit meeting here.

I know nothing about any other meeting.

Hopefully we will see this happen and will see progress in the spring summits from now on.

Then you will see the courts replacing the bullet -- and that is when we will see human rights.

We want to see increased accountability for the public service and we want to see decentralisation.

We want to see the return of refugees and we want to see free and fair elections.

But we shall see what we shall see.

If, when we talk about family reunion, we mean the core family, i.

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.

This appointment procedure therefore ensures complete transparency and democracy.

New rules have been drawn up and implemented governing the appointment of senior officials.

However, the appointment was cancelled at the last minute.

We continue to consider the appointment of the technical cooperation officer very important.

We continue to endorse the guidelines you gave at the time for this personnel and appointment policy.

4002 The problem is rather how to accomplish it.

Our hands are somewhat tied in this discussion on how we can accomplish these things in practice.

It is our job to give it the tools it needs to accomplish its mission.

That is what we must accomplish in this debate, that is the result we must pursue.

A recommendation will achieve something.

Europe needs to achieve full employment.

We all want to achieve that.

We were unable to achieve this.

We can help to achieve this.

To be effective, aid must arrive at the right time.

However, we hope that excessive time will not be required in order to arrive at these results.

Our doors are always open to any debate or any negotiations that will help us to arrive at a consensus.

First of all in order to arrive at this code of conduct, then in order that it should be effective.

Women are raped and no one can attain justice.

It should merely be given a chance to attain this status through regular monitoring.

Rapid approval of this directive is vital in order to attain this goal.

We accept them as being those which the industry can attain and can afford.

If we do not do this, we cannot attain them: it is as simple as that.

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.

Yet we have a real chance to catch up.

Yet it seems they cannot catch anybody responsible for these acts.

Giving industry some space to catch up seems justified in my opinion.

Tobacco farming was started immediately but it took several centuries for the potato to catch on.

In fisheries, the policy always seems to be about reducing the catch.

Firms must be a point of encounter and agreement.

Because of these new activities, they very often encounter and cross swords with industrial fleets.

They are also in a better position to resist these evils if they do encounter them.

I find that disappointing.

I find this a dangerous game.

We must find alternatives.

I find that approach interesting.

I find that quite natural.

We get one answer, but we should each get a supplementary.

Now surely a genuine refugee's priority is to get out of the particular country, not to get into one.

Unless we get rid of this we are never going to get the talks going.

Now the other half of the continent is queuing up to get in, yet my constituents want to get out.

Please do not get agitated.

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.

I truly hope that you do manage it.

We must be able to manage this.

Local authorities can never manage on their own.

And they still manage to do this at some level.

It will help enormously if we manage to draw up these lists.

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.

It must reach -- and really reach -- local bodies and the actual potential beneficiaries.

With patience we shall reach a successful conclusion.

9101 This is totally out of reach, economically.

We have tried to reach a compromise in our deliberations.

15179 I am convinced that we can reach a constructive solution.

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.

16776 We shall not succeed.

Many we hope will succeed.

12057 Unfortunately we did not succeed.

14613 Otherwise we will not succeed.

But we nevertheless hope you will succeed.

12732 It falls to them to do so, since they are best prepared to reach the citizens.

He outlined the need to reach an agreement acceptable to all.

I want us to discuss solidarity and to reach agreement on our political objectives.

The wish to reach a unanimous decision can lead to compromises which do not stand this test.

The negotiators will have to move into a higher gear if they are to reach successful conclusions.

I now turn to the content.

I turn now to the amendments.

I now turn to another subject.

I turn to the question at hand.

We should not turn things round.

Let us not beat about the bush.

We cannot continue to beat about the bush.

I will not beat about the bush: animals are animals and people are people.

Our task is to detect, trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of organised crime.

It is difficult to discern any further democratic developments during these first four months.

I hope it will grab that chance.

Since the details given in the report are not known, they cannot grab our attention.

However complicated the issues may be, the parties must grab the historic chance which they now have.

I cannot fully grasp the underlying rationale.

We must grasp these new opportunities.

We find this hard to grasp.

Now we have it within our grasp.

Citizens have a better grasp of their rights and obligations.

Basically, the more we lose our grip on morals, the more we tighten our grip on our wallet.

It is not pro - active enough to get a real grip on the situation.

Attempts are once again being made, rightly so, to get a tighter grip on money - laundering practices.

Until grip requirements are applied, these three amendments are therefore unacceptable.

That is the only way to get a grip on the problem.

I just wanted to give you advance notice.

I received no notice in order to prepare my defence.

Nobody seems to be taking any notice of this problem.

We are owed an explanation, a justification, a notice and some information.

If he does exist, it has escaped my notice & rsquo;  .

45289 That is something our people will perceive directly, for it will benefit them directly.

We would like to focus the twice - yearly summits on strategic themes that may run across several summits.

This is where we run up against contradictions, however.

On this score, only the future will tell.

We have now said enough on that score.

There is more to be said on that score.

Unfortunately, we are up against it on virtually every score.

Once again, we have been left in no doubt on that score.

I think we need to seize the opportunity.

I believe that in future we must seize this opportunity.

But just think if we could seize this opportunity.

Let us seize upon this fragile hope and pursue four points of action.

Our task is to detect, trace, freeze, seize and confiscate the proceeds of organised crime.

Through this vote the large parties have tried to snatch the contributors'   money to finance themselves.

I went out on a trap line.

Reinforced cooperation is like an eel trap.

Nor is there such a thing as a selective trap.

We do not wish to fall into this trap.

We must not allow ourselves to fall into this trap.