Translation of "Four-to-pica rule " (English → French) :

D. whereas, during 2007, Parliament adopted four resolutions under Rule 81 to draw attention to seven DCI programmes containing actions that do not meet the requirements for ODA classification,

In order to ensure the preparation provided for in Article 2(2) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Council, at least four weeks before each ordinary meeting of the European Council as referred to in Article 1(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Council, the President of the European Council, in close cooperation with the member of the European Council representing the Member State holding the six-monthly Presidency of the Council and with the President of the Commission, shall submit an annotated draft agenda to the General Affairs Council.

I voted against the Leinen report on amending the Rules of Procedure to increase the number of committee vice-chairmen from three to four and the number of Quaestors from five to six.

In order for these two goals to be achieved, however, the following four key principles must be observed. The working week must not be any longer than the proposed 56 hours, the rules must also cover express delivery and courier services, digital recording devices must be introduced without delay and wage dumping, which is often to blame for the dangerous situations we have seen, must be outlawed.

The specific programmes aim to present each of the thematic priorities in greater detail and to clearly set out their content, in order to assist other institutions at a later stage, via the four instruments, in handling specific programmes and conducting further negotiations relating to them. It is important to derive optimum benefit from the Framework Programme, the rules for participation and the specific programmes.

– (FR) Mr President, every four months now, at each summit, we see Europe giving itself a pat on the back and indulging in a quarterly self-celebration, whilst the number of demonstrators in the streets of Gothenburg, Nice and Barcelona increases and the people of Europe patently feel more support for the demonstrators than for their leaders who are gathered to hold their fine debates under ever-greater protection as we move from one summit to the next. The reason why the European Union is now wholly opposed to ultra-liberal globalisation is because everyone has realised that it has become globalisation’s main shoehorn, including at the last WTO summit at Doha. Europe – well, what you call Europe – the European institutions, in other words, ...[+++] have essentially become a funnel, which is trying to make the people of Europe approve a rule that is as old as the hills and that is the rule of money.