Translation of "Pesanteur d'une pierre lancée " (French → English) :

Jacques Galloy, EVS’ Chief Finance Officer: “We have identified EIB’s GFI initiative as a cornerstone for our RD program funding next to other commercial banks.

G. whereas attacks were launched in August 2007 against the homes of political figures who were not supporters, or who were former supporters, of the President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza,

28. Welcomes the Bureau's intention to revise Parliament's current staff and promotion policy; recalls that merit and performance are the cornerstones of its promotion policy, but that some rigidities, including the system for awarding annual promotion points, have made the implementation of a merit-based policy more difficult; calls upon its Bureau to take a decision in time for the budgetary authority to examine its budgetary implications at first reading in the autumn; postpones also its decision on all further requested special upgradings and conversion of posts until first reading, pending the submission of additional information ...[+++]; authorises the conversion of five temporary A and five temporary C posts into permanent posts for the future information offices in the prospective Member States; notes the Bureau's decision to suspend temporarily the implementation of Parliament's structured mobility policy, in view of the forthcoming enlargement and the election of a new Parliament;

During the protest, stones and bottles were thrown at the children and their parents, a bomb was exploded near the school, and death threats were also made.

Hon. Lucie Pépin: Honourable senators, those of us who knew Pierre Elliott Trudeau well have been left, since his passing, with a bewildering feeling of emptiness, a void that we are all still wondering how to fill, and one that weighs heavy on us.

In 1995, the policy of the Commission has been organised along six lines of action, designed to give a fresh impetus to the Single Market: (a) completing and streamlining the legislative framework of the Single Market (for example, the Commission has presented its proposals for the elimination of border checks on people in a framework of security); (b) making the Single Market work (notably by ensuring adequate penalties are applied for violations of Community law and improving the transparency and efficiency of infringement procedures); (c) confirming the Single Market as the cornerstone of Economic and Monetary Union (the Commission ...[+++]has confirmed that the response to the difficulties caused for the European economy by monetary fluctuations should be increased convergence with a view to introducing the single currency and not compensatory measures which would fragment the Single Market); (d) securing a Single Market for the citizen (The "Citizens First" initiative has been agreed to raise awareness about the rights and opportunities people enjoy in the Single Market); (e) adapting the Single Market to technological and other change (broad consultations have been launched to ensure an appropriate legislative framework for the Information Society); and (f) preparing the Single Market for enlargement (the White Paper on preparation of the CEECs for integration into the Single Market constitutes a valuable basis for the "structured dialogue" with these countries).