Traduction de «Interlocuteur qui parle à voix basse » (Français → Anglais) :

Hon. Jerahmiel S. Grafstein: Honourable senators, I also rise to pay tribute to my friend, John Bryden, who sat in the chair behind me in the Senate, and would volunteer to me, sotto voce, his homespun, salty, always-funny comments about the speakers and the Orders of the Day.

Urges the EU to strengthen its economic, budgetary, fiscal and political governance to give it a credible and weighty voice on the international stage; calls on the Council and the Commission to speak with one voice in order to prevent partnerships and bilateral agreements weakening the EU position; urges the Commission to cooperate closely with Member states when defining their commercial policies and their policies towards China; demands that the EU implements a long-term strategy with regard to China, ensuring the operational coordination both between the EU institutions and between the EU and the Member States;

However, when it comes to the largest countries or countries that are particularly important in economic terms for businesses in the Member States of the Union, we are just as prepared to remain silent on the subject of human rights or we speak about them in whispers.

The Chair: Can we have everyone's attention, please, and keep the conversations down.

I hope that similar considerations and opportunities will all be taken into account together at the forthcoming Spring Council, and I would quietly point out, by way of conclusion, that there has to be institutional coordination of economic and social policies in the euro zone, coordination capable of taking majority decisions and showing, not least in the work of the Convention, that the enlargement of the Union which we are determined to make every effort to achieve will not hinder the progress or dampen the vitality of the European Union in the search for new, more advanced forms of integration.

Fear reigns. It is a palpable fear which invades people’s daily lives and makes them speak in whispers or hide what they really think, just as people did during the worst periods of the Franco dictatorship.