The desire for peace must be underpinned by moderate and justified demands.

We know, for example, that the moderate consumption of wine can have beneficial effects on health.

This is how productive a moderate social policy is.

When the more moderate elements won the last elections, we thought our call had been heard.

What is important is that we are moderate and restrained when it comes to adopting the report.

We really must reconcile these two interests.

2340 We have to reconcile those different approaches.

In the pharmaceutical sector, we need to reconcile a number of different interests.

This is difficult to reconcile with the needs of an effective management system.

And, as the negotiations proceeded, it was hard to reconcile these two objectives.

The pass that we have to negotiate is littered with pitfalls.

Neither would it have been possible without a strong will to negotiate, with many partners.

Unless they are prepared to accept the conditions we negotiate, it will not happen.

16909 Firstly, allow each candidate country to negotiate on the basis of its own merits.

But now we have before us a party we cannot negotiate with.

Perhaps we could just settle that point of order now.

There must be no more attempts to settle these questions behind closed doors.

When a country starts functioning as a constitutional state again, it must also settle old scores.

European citizens will not settle for any less than a quality of life which befits them as human beings.

So far, we have had neither the political mechanisms nor the instruments to prevent or settle conflicts.

We must strike a balance between them.

There is a need to strike a balance between a genuine ranking and avoiding additional bureaucracy.

It therefore has to strike a balance between liberalisation of the financial market and social security.

Budgetary consolidation and monetary easing can be compatible, but here we need to strike a balance.

That is, of course, where you strike a balance between this principle as a political tool and science.