A good dose of hypocrisy is needed to overlook our weakness today.

It may have been our weakness and lack of credibility which led to the war.

The first crucial weakness is the lack of harmonisation.

Allow me to draw your attention to another weakness.

That is the strength, but also the weakness, of this document.

We should be able to crack this one.

As social democrats, we feel that sustainable energy must be given a fair crack of the whip.

We are trying to crack the code of protective rights for the companies but it is not easy.

That was the case a century ago, and although there was a crack down, it is now back in full force.

The first one is to crack down on the smuggling of human beings as an element of organised crime.

But that is not a defect for us; on the contrary, it is a good idea.

I consider that this is a serious defect and that, in principle, it does not befit our legal system.

There is no complacency, no fragility and no ambiguity about any of that at all.

Moreover, every politician has a soft spot for small and medium - sized enterprises.