It is an enormous challenge, but this is the challenge for which all of us have been working for so long.

The challenge of equality is above all the challenge of employment.

The challenge was immense.

Traffic is a real challenge.

This is the real challenge.

Once again political confrontation shows its most dreadful aspect.

He shies away from a democratic confrontation with the opposition.

32918 It is precisely the intention that confrontation should have a preventive effect.

Full respect for human rights and an end to armed confrontation must be demanded.

Our model is based on consensus, not on confrontation.

We must stand by our insistence that the island is a single undivided unit.

Politics is being smothered by too much symbolism and an excessive insistence on unanimity.

Everybody appreciates that the insistence on unanimity needs to be abandoned in this area.

This type of proposal and the continued insistence on comitology is not therefore the solution.

That could push energy prices down.

9329 5 %, mainly to push down inflationary trends.

They spout their poison and then push off.

Let us not push things to the limit.

23756 It will inevitably push individual companies over the edge.

It was a minimum requirement.

That is the minimum requirement.

It is a requirement of political propriety.

27895 The first requirement is intensive dialogue.

A compulsory brief beforehand is therefore a minimum requirement.

Claim and counter - claim, then.

I would claim that the reality is very different.

Brussels is not all of us, as you claim.

Another group may claim that the proposal contains technical problems.

We should not claim that a single currency will resolve unemployment.

There is, of course, elasticity of demand, in this case a price elasticity of demand.

They demand the elections.

We expect and demand better.

It is an impossible demand.

15956 We demand coherence and coordination.

Surely asking for an irrevocable linking of a currency, which means for ever, is asking too much.

We do not believe that in asking for this we are asking for too much.

We are not asking it to deal with such problems, we are simply asking that it should analyse them.

They are not asking for a privileged position, they are just asking for the same.

I have good reason for asking this.

This pretension is both dishonest and vain.

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.